1) Brombin recounts, “We talked a piece about and the like and I noticed how her face looked blurred, like there was a mist between me and her. I was the cotton fluff sifting through the air” (39), highlighting the steam created from the society’s constantly pumping machine. Through the imagery of the hazy mist surrounding Bromden and seeping into the woman's eyes Kesey alludes to the machine stifling individuality and humanity. In addition, Kesey’s imagery of a fog enveloping thousands of cotton fluffs reinforces that Bromden floats in a sea of identical cotton fluffs, manufactured by society so that humanity remains structured and invariable.
2) Bromden describes his visions in the ward at night as, “horrible things too goofy and outlandish to cry about and too much true to laugh about-but the fog is getting thick enough I don’t have to watch” (82), illustrating Kesey’s development of the fog into a coping mechanism utilized by the patients to let go of where they are physically and mentally. Kesey’s creates an image of a wall of fog being conjured up by Bromden, which dulls his senses to what is happening and detaches him from the flaws in the the oppressive powerhouse of society. Additionally, through Kesey’s description of the main…show more content… Through the imagery of a mechanical bell “clanging in the fog”, Kesey alludes to society’s control over structure because bells alert people of the time and therefore places that they have to be. In addition, the ominous and monotonous of the diction“three days, three years” supports Kesey’s new, intentional shift in Bromden’s view of the fog as a intezions of society's powers rather than a way to escape its
