McMurphy is a compelling protagonist in this novel as he is substancially different from the other patients in this mental hospital. McMurphy is accurately described in the passage, “He stands there waiting, and when nobody……he smiles and swaggers in the way he talks,” (Page 12). This section descries him perfectly because it displays his confidence and independence as he laughs loudly and freely in a place where emotions are customarily repressed. As he laughed, not a single person dared to stop him, not even Nurse Ratched which shows his assertiveness, as it states, “There’s no move to stop him, no move to say anything,” (Page 12). Chief describes his laughter, “Even when he isn’t laughing, the laughing sound hovers around him,” (Page 12),
