Chief Bromden, the main character of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, appears to have a varying clarity of thought. His narration fluctuates between being very intelligent, to sounding like it's coming from a conspiracy theorist. Sometimes he ends up in some weird "fog" in which he loses almost all ability to move or listen. In his intelligent periods, he is very analytical, and can figure out things that are difficult for most people to realize. However, in his fits of insanity he is sometimes sure that Nurse Ratched is pouring chemical gases into the room, which make time stop, other times certain that the events of the day are determined completely by Nurse Ratched, and still other times thinks that she has listening devices in the walls. These hallucinations make it difficult to tell what events are actually happening and what are simply the result of Chief Bromden's deranged imagination.
-Ian Hines
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