One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Interested in getting direct access to the psychedelic drugs, Kesey took a job as a psychiatric aide at the same VA hospital. Ingesting various substances and working all night at the mental institution became the inspiration for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. According to Kesey, the narrator's voice, which many consider the masterstroke of the novel's success, came one day when he'd done a particularly strong dose of …showed first 75 words of 1463 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1463 total…focuses on sex roles and racial stereotypes resurfaces time and again in critiques of his works. Nowhere is his blatant treatment of the tension between the sexes so vivid as in Cuckoo's Nest, however. Such criticisms as the following were not uncommon: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a very beautiful and inventive book violated by a fifth-rate idea which made Woman, in alliance with modern technology, the destroyer of masculinity and sensuous enjoyment.9.