Chief Bromden

Chief Bromden is a fictional character in Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which was later made into a play and into a film, both sharing the same title as the novel. In the former two, he is the narrator of the story. He was portrayed by Will Sampson in the film. Bromden, nicknamed "Chief Broom" by the ward orderlies, is a towering man of mixed Native American and white heritage, and one of the longest institutionalized patients in the Oregon mental hospital in which the novel takes place. He is diagnosed as an incurable paranoid schizophrenic, and pretends to be deaf and mute, in order to protect himself from the forces of "The Combine", which he believes is a mechanized society intent on usurping freedom and...