Nurse Ratched vs. McMurphy

Through the whole book, I thought that McMurphy was really going to break the Nurse and win their figurative battle. For so long, the nurse oppressed the men and made them feel like nothing, and then McMurphy comes in and within days makes the men feel special, and like they matter. With the vote to change the schedule, McMurphy thought that he had an easy win against the nurse, but she had to struggle to keep control, so her iron grip on them got even tighter as they went along. In the end, Nurse Ratched may have won their more physical battle, but I think that McMurphy really won, because he made the men in the ward feel like people again after, for so long, the nurse tried to make them feel like nothing.