Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, is based on how he viewed a psychiatric ward, and the characters in it. Chief Bromden, a long-term patient in Nurse Ratched's psychiatric ward, narrates the events of the novel. In the beginning Bromden wake up thinking that it is a typical day, but little does he know, the patient that will arrive will change his life.
             From inside the day room the patients sit in their usual place, with the "Acutes" (patients that could possibly be fixed) on one side of the room playing their usual games such as cards and puzzles. One the other side there is the "Chronics" (aka vegetables, these patients can not be fixed) they stay against the wall and some are in wheel chairs. Everyone listens when a new patient enters the ward and today Bromden detects a man that is unusual. He walks with confidence and curiosity. When Mr. McMurphy enters the day room he immediately begins introducing himself to others. Many of the patients are taken back by this attitude as though they are not use to this. McMurphy does more than just have a good attitude, he is so comfortable with the patients that this helps boost their self confidence and many of them turn rebellious towards Nurse Ratched and the ward. Nurse Ratched does not handle this well, because she likes to have total control! There are numerous occasions where McMurphy plays Ratched for control. For example, getting all of the patients to vote on watching T.V. and this including Bromden who is known as "Deef and Dumb" and by voting, everyone's perception of him changes. Nurse Ratched finds other ways to make herself feel inferior, like at the daily meeting she puts McMurphy's file on the spotlight and helps Dr. Spivey break it all down and what it means. She becomes more violent.
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