Foster asserts distinction between McMurphy and Bromdem, claiming that the reason McMurphy is so successful in his actions against the Big Nurse is that he isn’t cagey or restrained, like Bromden. After describing McMurphy’s change from hustler to uncalcluated risk taker, the author depicts exactly how his transformation contributes to the growth of the patients that overall turns himself into a victim in the process. Foster goes as far to say that the reason that the patients, prodominantly Bromden, become so much stronger throughout the novel is because as McMurphy goes through his transformation, he is essentially giving power to the patients. I can use Foster’s identification of McMurphy’s shift to fully explain how the patients in the
