ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST Part 2

In Part 2 of Ken Kesey's, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest I noticed a major change in McMurphy's attitude and the change in the hospital.  It seems as if everything has gone back to the way it was before McMurphy came.  The big nurse is in control again and everyone else just seems to blend in.  I think now the hospital became somewhat boring as well.  On page 181 it says, "whatever it was went haywire in the mechanism, they've just about got it fixed again.  The clean, calculated arcade movement is coming back: six-thirty out of bed, seven into the mess hall, eight the puzzles come out for the Chronics and the cards for the Acutes... in the Nurses' Station i can see the white hands of the Big Nurse float over the controls.  After reading this short chapter it basically confirmed all of my assumptions about the changes that were taking place.  Chief Broom used to see McMurphy as the person who would stand up to the big nurse and change the way the hospital was being operated.  I also felt like that chapter was about machinery as well.  The hospital is called the mechanism and at the end it says the controls are being operated by the big nurse.  This shows her power and control over her patients.  Since McMurphy is afraid of being moved up to disturbed he changed his attitude and no longers stands up to the big nurse.  This however causes other characters to become upset.  After the nurse limits the patients to one pack of cigarettes a day they become mad and want to do something about it.  On page 172, it says, "and that afternoon in the meeting when Cheswick said that everybody'd agreed that there should be some kind of showdown on the cigarette situation, saying, "I ain't no little kid to have cigarettes kept from me like cookies!  We want something done about it, aint that right, Mack?" and waited for McMurphy to back him up, but all he got was silence."  Cheswick contined to yell that he wanted something done about the situation but McMurphy still didn't respond to his screams so the big nurse carried out her plan for the cigarette's.  Then at the pool Cheswick drowned himself because he knew nothing was going to change at the hospital and he couldn't deal with it.  This shows McMurphy's effect on the other characters and how his behavior changed the hospital in general.  Overall, I enjoyed Part 2 of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and am looking forward to see if McMurphy changes his attitude back to how he acted when he first came into the hospital.