One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest characters
Chief is the narrator of the story, and for most of the book, he’s just an observer. He is a disabled person, which can’t talk, and that is the main thing in the book – people feel very free near him, and talk about almost everything, even about their secrets. Although he is...
McMurphy is a very wise person, who was destined to change the place where he is forever. We don’t know if he’s a psychopath or not, and unfortunately, we’ll never get it. But we know for sure, that he’s is smart, likeable and he gives to the patients the ability to take...
This character is an antagonist in the novel. She likes order, where everything is in the proper place; she adores when she has complete power, and when she can manipulate other people and her patients. Being the main nurse and the woman with many connections inside and outside of the hospital...
Billy is a shy man whose special demon is fear. Because his mother and Nurse Ratched are friends, and because Billy is a “little mummy’s boy”, the Nurse has a special power over him. Billy wants to please everybody, but he also wants to be his own man. These two opposing forces...
We don’t know a lot about this character, and he doesn’t have a lot of the role in the book. Dale Harding is the natural leader among the Acutes—the one whom everybody leads up looks up to and follows in difficult times where crisis comes. But he doesn’t want to huff...
A doctor is a kind man who would rather be working with his charts than participating in the afternoon group meetings. Because of his addiction to the opiates, Nurse Ratched insinuates this, and he allows her to do what she wants. He backs the men up with their various schemes to make life more...
We don’t get a lot of information about this character, but after reading some pages of the book, we can comprehend that this person is a fisherman. He is ill, but kind, he is scared of a lot of things. For example, George is afraid of dirty things to death. It’s a phobia. But as well...