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Summary Of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
My character for the project was Dale Harding. I want my short story to be a prequel to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The setting will be inside the ward after a meeting. The meeting was focus once again on Harding’s wife and Harding is reflecting back on the meeting. He is laying down in his bed before sleep reflecting on his day. He is completely blind to how Nurse Rachet is playing them and he beginnings to overthink his situation with his wife. At first he denies it and then become more and more irritated with his situation with his wife. Eventually his issues spiral out of control from just his wife to everything going on in his life. He realizes everything in his life is not right, that everything is pointless. By the end of the story

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