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?