The cigarettes in this story represent freedom. The men use cigarettes as money in blackjack, and whoever wins can spend money like in the outside world. Betting and gambling is a mans game and the men feel more mature and not alone when they bond over these games. Cheswick gets rightfully angry when Nurse Ratched steals his stash because it reminds him that he has a caretaker like a child. She says it it McMurphys fault to try and and get people against him. She must do anything she can to keep their feeling of independace to keep from coming through. Cheswick says what everyone is dying to say; that he deserves his cigarettes and isnt a child. His courage leads McMurphy to get his cigarettes by breaking through into the nurse's station and finally peforming an act of true defiance.
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