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One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest Characters

Meet the Cast

Randle McMurphy

McMurphy is larger than life, a man destined to change the asylum forever. Whether he’s a p...

Chief Bromden

Chief is the narrator of the story and for most of the book, he’s just an observer. He watc...

Nurse Ratched (Big Nurse)

Nurse Ratched desires order, and she wants complete power, so she manipulates her patients and th...

Dale Harding

Until McMurphy shows up, Dale Harding is the natural leader among the Acutes – the one ever...

Billy Bibbit

Billy is a shy man whose special demon is fear. Because his mother and Nurse Ratched are friends,...

Doctor Spivey

The doctor is a kind man who would rather be working with his charts than participating in the af...

Charles Cheswick

Cheswick is one of the Acutes, the first patient to support McMurphy when he pits himself against...

The Acutes

The Acutes are made up of patients who are seen to be "curable." These men include McMurphy, Hard...

The Chronics

The Chronics are made up of patients who are considered incurable and will probably be in the war...

Candy Star

Candy is the young prostitute who accompanies the men on their boating expedition and later retur...

George Sorenson (Rub-a-Dub George)

George is a former fisherman who is deathly afraid of dirt. After the fishing trip, Nurse Ratched...

The Orderlies

Williams, Warren, Washington, and Geever are the orderlies at the ward. These men are always arou...

Rawler

Rawler commits suicide by cutting off his balls and bleeding to death. This symbolizes the way al...

Sandy

Sandy is a prostitute who knows McMurphy. She joins in on the ward part and is found in McMurphy&...

Public Relation

A fat-faced, balding man who brings people in for tours of the insane asylum, promoting the asylu...