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Chief Bromden Character Analysis
Chief Bromden, the narrator, is a schizophrenic Indian who pretends to be deaf and dumb so he is not bothered. In the beginning there is a new admission to the insane asylum, Randel McMurphy, who makes a bet with the other patients that he can break Nurse Ratchet without harm, physically or mentally. What McMurphy doesn’t know is that Nurse Ratchet has control over anything that happens to him, she can keep him locked up as long as she wants, while able to perform electroshock therapy or even a lobotomy on him. McMurphy tries to undermine Nurse Ratchet’s authority by sneaking in some prostitutes and getting the ward drunk. When Nurse Ratchet finds out about this she threatens to tell Billy Babbit’s mother about the prostitute, Billy gets so
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