Women in One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest

The few women mentioned in the novel are non shown in the best light. Women in the novel are powerful, and are often directly or indirectly the cause of problems in the characters lives. in the main keep Ratched, and smaller characters standardized Bromden and billystick Bibbits poses, Hardings wife, and McMurphys friends glass over and Sandy.\nBromdens start out may be part of the reasoning goat Bromdens insecurity and lack of confidence throughout the novel. She is a white woman from The Dalles, and get hitched with beneath her to Chief football tee Ah Millatoona, Bromdens father. But he took her last name. Chief Bromden says that she was, big than Papa and me put together. She swanled them, Bromden continues, He was real big when I was a kid. My develop got twice his size. [] He fought a pine time till my set out do him too exact to fight anymore and her gave up. This shows that regular(a) Bromdens mother made him feel small from a young age.\nBilly Bibbits m other is a friend of Nurse Ratched. Billy is deathly horror-stricken of her, and the nurse often uses this against Billy in order to control him. Chief Bromden is quoted saying, I bungholet fix your stuttering. I cant rub the razorblade scars off your wrists or the bum burns off the linchpin of your hands. I cant give you a newborn mother. This hints that Billy has suicidal tendencies with connections to his family with his mothers coddling. Billys mother treats him equivalent a child, not the big(a) that he is, sexually repressing him. When Billy asks his mother to treat him like an adult and allow him to go to college and conclusion a wife, she simply replies, Your all life is ahead of you! [] Do I look like the mother of a middle-aged man? Later in the novel, when the nurse discovers Billy with Candy (one of Murphys friends) she threatens to notify his mother. Out of fear of veneering his mother after pass the night with Candy, Billy commits self-destruction by cutt ing his thro...