In Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, McMurphy and the other patients are taken to the pool and while at the pool, McMurphy talks to the lifeguard. What is ironic about the lifeguard is he is a patient on the disturbed and he is supposed to protect the other patients from any harm at the pool. The lifeguard’s reason of being in the hospital is revealed when Chief explains, “...every so often when he was off his ward a signal would click back of his eyes and his lips’d go to spitting numbers and he’d drop to all fours in a line stance and cut loose on some strolling nurse...whenever he wasn’t lifeguarding he was liable to do something like that” (Kesey 170). Experiencing hallucinations that are in some cases violent, the lifeguard
