One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Part II

The tables begin to turn in part two of this novel, as the patients in the ward begin to watch and observe Nurse Ratched.  They all sit and stare at her through the glass window as she has her outbursts.  All of this mayhem is taking place in the ward because of a rather new and very smart patient, McMurphy.  In the beginning of part two Nurse Ratched, the aids, the doctors and the other staff at the ward hold a meeting to discuss what to do about this McMurphy character.  Chief Bromdom always sits in on the meetings and cleans the walls and baseboards with a bucket and sponge.  They allow him to do this being that they think he is “deaf and dumb”.  But Bromdom isn’t really deaf and he isn’t so “dumb” either.  In this meeting he listens and pays very close attention to their discussion about McMurphy.  They all feel that he is violent and a threat to the staff and other patients, and that he should be moved from the acute’s to the disturbed.  The big nurse does not respond to this and the rest of the staff takes he silence as a sign of approval, but they are oddly mistaken.