Nurse Ratched is seen as a threatening character who deprives her patients of their masculinity, which reveals how Kesey resists the idea of a matriarchal society. Vera Harding’s conversation with Harding represents how women are oppressed by men in society when Harding adds mean remarks about her grammar. Candy feels inferior, which serves to demonstrate the undermining of women’s identity and sense of self. All three scenes together proves to show that in a traditional society, women are rather pulled down by the men’s and society’s expectations of women to be seen as a submissive