Fear of Nurse Ratched

During the scene where there all in group therapy and McMurphy is urging all the patients to raise there hands in favor of watching world series. When Chief says "Nobody says a thing. There all sunk back out of sight in little pockets of fog. I can barely see them" (114). This comes to show that the patients are trying to act invisible, and were afraid of what Nurse Ratched was going to do with them if they were going to agree with McMurphy. When chief says "there all sunk back out of sight of Nurse Ratched." There fear of Nurse Ratched hides there true feelings of what they desire about the television viewing. There hidden feelings are that they want to side with McMuphy but are too afraid of Nurse Ratched.