OFOTCN post 2

So I'm about halfway through and I'm starting to rethink some of the things I said in my previous post. First of all, I said that some of the patients were already rebellious and McMurphy wasn't changing their characters a whole lot. However, as I have read on, I have noticed that many of the patients have undergone huge personality changes since his arrival. This is particularly true in the bit with the baseball game on the television. I did not find it to be as obvious in the movie as I did in the book, since in the book Nurse Ratched is yelling at them one by one as they approach the tv set, and they continue to sit down anyways and stare at the screen as if the game was on. This moment is completely instigated by McMurphy, and the first obvious sign of rebellion on the ward. Another part of my first post that I am starting to disagree with is the idea that the mechanical imagery had something to do with electroshock therapy. I am starting to think it is largely connected with the story about the cotton mill on pages 38-40, which I was immediately drawn to. In the description of the story their is even an obvious comparison between the factory and the ward. There are a few things I'm confused about though as well. One is the "dream" that chief has on pages 86-90. I'm having trouble figuring out the significance of this, and I wonder if anyone else who is readin the book has thought much about it and has any say in it. Similarly, the whole concept of this "fog" that chief keeps getting lost in is a bit confusing to me too. I'm not sure whether it's a physical fog machine, or if its more of an emotional state. I'm beginning to get the feeling that things such as the fog and the dream might be for the purpose of getting an insight into the chief's character, and why he is on that ward. It is as if we, the readers, are viewing the ward through the mind of someone who is "crazy," but because we see it through their eyes we might not necessarily consider them to be "crazy." Its as if his train of thought may not be logical, but because it is logical to him and we see the world through his thoughts, it is logical to us as well.