Part One: Chapter One: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is narrated by Chief Bromden (also known as Chief Broom), a mute Indian known for mopping the mental institution where he is confined. The black boys in white suits who work in the ward mock Chief Broom; they think that he is deaf and dumb and cannot hear them. Nurse Ratched (also known as Big Nurse) enters. Her lips and her fingernails are both a …showed first 75 words of 10903 total…

…showed last 75 words of 10903 total…s that she's merely "charging his battery" and the first woman who takes him on afterward will "light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars." Chief Bromden leaves Disturbed at the end of the week. Harding congratulates Chief Bromden when he returns. There are rumors that McMurphy is not responding at all to the EST. Nurse Ratched realizes that McMurphy is becoming legendary while he is out of the ward, so