To be a woman is to be a mother, a nurturer. What happens when womanhood is placed in one of two categories: the desexualized Good Mother like the Virgin Mary or the original sinner like Eve? Patricia Reis explores this idea in her essay, “Good Breast, Bad Breast, This is the Cuckoo’s Nest: Ken Kesey and the Myth of Matriarchy”. Diving deeper into Reis’ essay, she shows that “[a] woman is not a woman”. She is a symbol” and this reigns true in not only Kesey’s novel but also in day-to-day interactions (Reis 81). In crafting a unique argument regarding Kesey’s tactic to place his fictional women into confining spaces, as seen in Ratched and Candy, it was found that in Laszlo F. Gerfin’s “The Breasts of Big Nurse: Satire versus Narrative in Kesey’s
