It is safe to say chapter 28 of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest revolves not around mcmurphy or the big nurse, but around Billy Bibbit. Being thrust into the spotlight, shy little Billy Bibbit overcomes remarkable barriers. For the first time, we are given insight into the root of his childish behavior; his mother. Jug-eared, buck toothed, and freckled faced Billy starts to break free of his illusion and become the gray haired, wrinkled 31 year old he is.
Although billy has made drastic improvements from the start of the book before this chapter, this chapter is the most important because it is the point of no return. By losing his virginity, Billy faces his biggest fear and makes a giant step into becoming a man. The factor that gives significance…show more content… Right from the start of the chapter, Bromden makes a tremendous step towards his own personal Recovery. For the first time, he fought his way out of the fog. In the opening paragraph Bromden says “I found you can come fighting right out of it. This time I came fighting out of it in less than a day, less time than ever.” Throughout the novel, Ken Kesey uses fog as a symbol for an escape from reality. Bromden hides in the figurative fog throughout novel to escape from the reality of the ward and his life. At this point in the novel it is extremely significant that Bromden figured out that he can escape the fog as long as you actually want to. Chief tells us “if you don’t have a reason to wake up you can loaf around in that gray zone for a long, fuzzy time...” This shows us that Bromden has realised he has something to live for, he no longer thinks he is just stuck in the ward to rot like the other chronics. This is the point of no return for Bromden because he has realised that the fog can be escaped, he can never go back and pretend that it controls him. Bromden foreshadows his escape from the ward in this paragraph when he says “It was the last treatment they gave
