One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Characters
The protagonist of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a broad-chested, red-haired, thirty-five-year-old Irishman, with a "loud, brassy voice" and a hearty laugh that "sounds big." Diagnosed as a possible psychopath for his brawling and "overzealousness" in sexual relations, McMurphy has secured release from the Pendleton Farm for Correction to go to the greener pastures of the psychiatric ward, where he anticipates an easy life of eating, sleeping, and gambling. Like such American heroes as Natty Bumppo, Rip Van Winkle, and Huckleberry Finn, McMurphy is a...
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