Kesey’s writing style is wholly unique. Kesey is able to write with several different tones which gives One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest its incredibly unique feel. Few writers would be able to go from a tone of acid trip to machinery to humorous in the span of only a few pages. Even fewer yet would be able to flow between tones as smoothly as Kesey. An example of this is when Kesey is describing Nurse Ratched for the first time. Kesey describes the pure fear Chief experiences when he sees Nurse Ratched, “She knows what they been saying, and I can see she’s furious clean out of control. She’s going to tear the black bastard’s limb from limb, she’s so furious. She’s swelling up, swells till her back’s splitting out the white uniform and she’s
