And the fact that the townsfolk are all namedJohnsonfurther emphasizes Rock Ridge's homogeneity.Bucolic cattle roam through the town's saloon.Taggart carries through on his second plan to scare the townsfolk into leaving town by riding through with a group of men (with six-shooters blazing).Only three votes support McMurphy's request and he can't believe it, envoking a political comparison: "What is this crap?.Gardenia who passed away a few days earlier: "She'd been in a coma for weeks...She was very old and passed away without ever waking.I'd be grateful to go that way myself when the time comes." There are signs of the deceased tenant's gardening interest in herbs, and cryptic writings of hers read: "I can no longer associate myself.Originally, Kazan had hired playwright Arthur Miller in 1950 to research the world of longshoremen in Brooklyn’s Red Hook area (and use material from Johnson's articles), and craft a script for a film to be titledThe Hook.