number two, one flew over the cuckoo's nest

"Even the embalmers, usually a pair of penny-pinching tightwads, are swayed. 'Yeah, look at him there: old Max Taber, he was a good sort. What do you say we use that expensive thirty0weight at no extra charge to his wife. No, what the dickens, let's make it on the house'."

Chief has been there for so long that he knows the routine. This phrase relates to the dismissal of the hospital. It leads me to believe that he is jealous of them because they get to leave. The sad thing is that the Chief probably just doesn't have the confidence to talk, because if he did then he would be just like the men he is jealous of. I think he makes fun of how the hospital works because he is really mad with himself. Chief is pretty much normal, maybe a little aggressive with the way he talks (meaning, the way he thinks), but no one can dismiss him from the hospital because he hasn't talk since he came there.

Questions:

Is there a reason cheif won't talk? Is he just scared of living on the outside?

When did he arrive at the hospital? And what caused his admittance?

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken kesey

In the beginning of the first chapter you meet the narrator, Chief Bromden. He has been a patient of mental institution for a very long time. There is only one other person who has been there longer than he has. Chief is a mute, at least everyone thinks he is

" They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them" (this is the first line of the book)
pg.1

Because this is the first line of the book, the reader automatically understands that the narrator is not sound. Chief Bromden is extremely paranoid because of the staff. He truly believes there is a conspiracy run by the ward to cause as much suffering and frustration as possible to him.

Mr.McMurphy, on the other hand, is a loud and rambunctious newcomer. In every way he is the opposite of Bromden, yet Bromden envies his charisma and personality