One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Part 2

For my blog on Part 2 of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, I’d like to once again focus on a thought from Chief. On page 162, he is describing the unsuspected oddities he sees from McMurphy- “I was seeing him different when he first came in; I was seeing more to him than just big hands and red sideburns and a broken-nosed grin.” He sees him paint and write letters in beautiful handwriting. This section of Part 2 made McMurphy seem so much more real to me. Like all of us, he has an exterior that most people judge him by, but when alone, can be a very different person. This blurb about McMurphy not only made him more civilized, it made me ask if maybe he was acting the way he was for more than to just be a rebel. Maybe there was a true “method” to his madness. At this point in the novel, I began to see McMurphy as misunderstood soul. I realized that I judged him based only on what he had done since entering the ward and never asked myself why he was the way he was.