Characterizing Nurse Ratched by Denise Ready https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6 Contribute at least one quote with an analysis of who Nurse Ratched is and what she contributes to the plot and/or theme of the novel. Feel free to comment on and like posts. en-us 2021-12-02 21:19:19 UTC 2022-01-05 09:54:26 UTC hello@padlet.com clays535 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928042788 "I see her sit in the center of this web…she knows every second which wire runs where and just what current to send up to get the results she wants.”

This line makes a comparison between Nurse Ratched and a spider, both being in control of what is happening in their "web".]]> 2021-12-03 19:33:09 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928042788 "You seem to forget, Miss Filnn, that this is an institution for the insane." wakeb704 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928044127 The way she has remind people of how it is on the Inside and how she runs the Inside.]]> 2021-12-03 19:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928044127 “Working alongside others like her who I call the “Combine..” The “machinery” and mechanical language Chief uses illustrates the inhumanity and cruelty of the Nurse, and how she wants the patients to run smoothly like machines. siddz248 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928045414 2021-12-03 19:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928045414 "Under her rule the ward Inside is almost complete adjusted to surrounding." macj958 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928046052 She likes to control, and wants everything to be her way and fit her wants. ]]> 2021-12-03 19:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928046052 beltk496 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928046112 "So after the nurse gets her staff, efficiency locks the ward like a watchman's clock."
She likes to be in control. Doesn't want staff that she can't control.]]> 2021-12-03 19:35:30 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928046112 gerbr007 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928046303 "the slightest thing messy or out of kilter or in the way ties her into a little white knot  of tight smiled fury"
-she isnt flexible and its her way or the highway.]]> 2021-12-03 19:35:38 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928046303 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928046551 "Since I started on the ward with that woman I feel like my veins are running ammonia..." "...and she fixes these doctors with dry-ice eyes day in, day out, until they retreat with unnatural chills.

Shows her coldness to others on the ward and her ruthlessness in order to keep control and perfection.]]> 2021-12-03 19:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928046551 "Mr. Mcmurray, could you come here please?" philc497 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928046785 This quote illustrates the subtle ways that the nurse tries to manipulate people. She knows full well that she's mispronouncing his name but continues to do it as a show of power]]> 2021-12-03 19:36:00 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928046785 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928047570 "The Big Nurse tends to get real put out if something keeps her outfit from running like a smooth, accurate, precision-made machine"
Nurse ratchet likes things to go her way or the highway, and in a way is part of the columbine with how much she needs order. ]]> 2021-12-03 19:36:38 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928047570 "I recall some years back we had a man, Mr.Taber, on the ward, and he was an intolerable Ward Manipulator. For a while." elvek781 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928047611 This quote implies possibly how Nurse Ratched will take care of certain aspects of the ward that don't contribute to her idea of a perfectly ideal ward, no matter how badly it may affect the patients and how she possibly plans to do the same thing with McMurphy.]]> 2021-12-03 19:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928047611 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928047629 "The Big Nurse tends to get real out of place if something keeps her outfit from running  like a smooth, accurate, precision-made made machine."

She is a control freak who needs to look perfect in order to have full control.]]> 2021-12-03 19:36:40 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928047629 "She keeps this up for years" gillk664 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928048031 Nurse Ratched will keep on finding new doctors and orderlies just to find the ones she wants, she will do this for years. She'll either make their lives miserable until they ask for a transfer or they'll just leave. ]]> 2021-12-03 19:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928048031 pierp272 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928048274 ..."that is exactly what the new patient is planning: to take over. ..." 

She explains and shows how angry she gets when McMurphy is taking more control than she wants]]> 2021-12-03 19:37:08 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928048274 "she fixes these doctors with dry-ice eyes day in, day out, until they retreat with unnatural chills" she doesn't just want to control the patients of the ward, but also the doctors libba934 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928049365 2021-12-03 19:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928049365 ¨Comfort and an easy life, for instance; the feeling of power and respect, perhaps; monetary gain-perhaps all of these things.¨ kiddh364 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928049487 This is a way that she shows her values throughout her life and the love of the power that she holds in the institution. She truly loves the control over others that she has.]]> 2021-12-03 19:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928049487 "The Big Nurse tends to get real put out if something keeps her outfit from running like a smooth, accurate, precision-made machine." mills603 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928050115 Shows how everything has to be perfect in her ward. Every little detail matters and if something is wrong there will be consequences. ]]> 2021-12-03 19:38:30 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928050115 "She never gives orders out loud or leaves written instructions... doesn't need to anymore." andec543 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928050295 This quote shows how in control Nurse Ratched is and how she controls the ward to her liking. She picked and trained the "black boys" so well that they use their built up anger toward the people in the ward to please her. ]]> 2021-12-03 19:38:36 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928050295 https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928051125 "What, Miss Ratched, is your opinion of this new patient?", "I'm afraid." 
Although she doesn't sound like she's admitting she's actually afraid, Nurse Ratched seems to be a bit afraid of being controlled. That's why she doesn't want anyone to be in control other than her. It might be why she also takes any kind of competition such as McMurphy seriously.]]> 2021-12-03 19:39:16 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928051125 "Oh, hello guys. Stiff lip, stiff lip... Look around, girls; isn't it clean, so bright? This is Miss. Ratched. I chose this ward because its her ward. She's, girls, just like a mother. Not that I mean age, but you girls understand." https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928053733 This is a quote the doctor uses to describe Miss. Ratched and the ward to the readers. Readers can infer that he is saying the ward is only clean(which represents orderly) because Miss. Ratched is running the dorm. ]]> 2021-12-03 19:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1928053733 "No. He isn't extraordinary. He is simply a man and no more, and is subject to all the fears and all the cowardice and all the timidity that any other man is subject to." (157) https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1976036756 Nurse Ratched likes to hold grudges and get her revenge when she think it is deserving. Her word and control is the divine doctrine and she will stop at nothing to break a man down for it, to exert her control.]]> 2022-01-05 09:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/readyd1/qmr8jsgcfllc7xj6/wish/1976036756