A patient on the ward and a former fisherman. McMurphy names Sorenson the captain of the fishing trip. The aides give Sorenson the nickname “Rub-a-Dub George” because he has a phobia of being dirty. After the aides taunt Sorenson in the post-fishing trip shower, McMurphy and Chief Bromden step in to fight the aides. McMurphy and Bromden are then sent to Disturbed for shock therapy.
George Sorenson Quotes in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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She tried to get her ward back into shape, but it was difficult with McMurphy’s presence still tromping up and down the halls and laughing out loud in the meetings and singing in the latrines. She couldn’t rule with her old power any more, not by writing things on pieces of paper. She was losing her patients one after the other. After Harding signed out and was picked up by his wife, and George transferred to a different ward, just three of us were left out of the group that had been on the fishing crew, myself and Martini and Scanlon.
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Chief Bromden (speaker), Randle P. McMurphy, Nurse Ratched, Dale Harding, George Sorenson, Martini, Scanlon
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George Sorenson Character Timeline in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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...light of the company they’d kept, and in hopes nothing would spread throughout the hospital. George Sorenson has a phobia of cleanliness and he begs them not to spray him with their...
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