One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Mcmurphy Character Analysis

A Crazy Man or a Lazy Man
In the beginning of the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Randle Patrick McMurphy was transferred from a prison farm to a mental institution, because he was declared as a psychopath by a judge. As the novel progresses, McMurphy’s mentality does not resemble a truly insane character: his actions and keen observation demonstrates his mental awareness which causes people in the ward to notice him. Therefore his actions create allegations against McMurphy and determine whether his is a crazy psychopath or simply a lazy con man.
The novel is narrated by Chief Bromden, an observant patient at the ward who tends to keep silent, sweeping the floors with a broom, and therefore the patients refers to him as Chief Broom. Chief is a big, quiet patient who’s paranoid by a hallucinated fog, and as the story progresses, Chief narrates the story of the ward, its patients, and his journey towards sanity.``````` Since McMurphy was transferred to the mental facility, everyone in the ward notices that he is different compared to the
Since that day, McMurphy began to challenge Miss Ratched, determined to test her whenever he had the chance: singing consistently, acting obnoxious, and asking to change everything, with a smirk on his face. His first victory over nurse Ratched is when McMurphy causally pretends only to wear a towel around his waist. Miss Ratched pulled off his towel just to reveal that he was wearing shorts under, which our narrator describes Miss Ratched rather had McMurphy naked than have shorts under the towel. McMurphy’s action caused the nurse to fume because she realized that McMurphy outsmarted her. This causes the readers to see that McMurphy is wittier than the other patients, evidence of his pseudo insanity