One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Part I

In part one of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest we are introduced to the characters in the hospital.  We also become aware of who our narrator is and how he came to be there, his name is Chief Bromden, a long-term patient in Nurse Ratched's psychiatric ward.  Nurse Ratched is steadily referred to as “The Big Nurse”, by Bromden. Bromden describes Ratched as having “skin like flesh-colored enamel” and lips and fingertips the strange orange color of polished steel. Her one feminine feature is her oversized chest, which she attempts to hide under her white nurses uniform. Bromden also describes he as “big as a tractor” when she gets angry with the aides, other wise known as the black boy.  Everyone in the ward seems to think Bromden is “deaf and dumb”, meaning he cant hear or speak.  With that said everyone in the ward, patients and staff included, walk all over him.  The patients like to mess around with him time and again, and the aids; or black boys like to make him do their dirty work like mop the floors and clean the ward.  Another thing we learn early on about Chief Bromden is how he begins to scream and hallucinate that he is being surrounded by machine-made fog until he is forcedly medicated.  This happens when they aids try to shave him.