One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Why is McMurphy there?

Why is McMurphy there?

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When the story begins, a new patient, Randall Patrick McMurphy, arrives at the ward. He is a self-professed “gambling fool” who has just come from a work farm at Pendleton as part of his sentence for statutory rape. He clearly is completely sane and lucid. He only agrees to come to the hospital to avoid working on the farm.