Maya huggins- part 2

By choosing the paranoid and hallucinating patient, Chief Bromden, as the narrator, ken Kesey gave readers an insight to the system of a mental institution. Chief's perspective sometimes proved unreliable due to his hallucinations, such as the fog or the machinery within the hospital walls. I found it hard to distinguish reality from his imagination at times. For instance, he explains in vivid deatail, "I'd wander for days in the fog, scared I'd never see another thing, then there'd be that door, opening to show me the mattress padding on the other side to stop the sounds, the men standing like zombies among shiny copper wires and tubes pulsing light, and the bright scrape of arcing and electricity" (Kesey 131).  because of his countless hallucinations similar to this, the story was turned into an imaginative maze coursing through puzzling paranoia.
Even though Chief suffered from seeing things that weren't actually real, helped readers see into the inner workings of the institution. This was a result of his fake deafness and eavesdropping. Since the staff and other patients assumed he was deaf, they found his presence irrelevant when telling secrets or making plans. Chief explains his role by saying, "...I had to keep on acting deaf if I wanted to hear it all" (Kesey 209). This left my opinion on him staggering because he has been able to keep up this lie for so long. He plays people with this act of deafness which adds insecurity to his story-telling in the novel. He fills me with mistrust since he has conned so many people into believeing this lie, just as McMurphy has conned others with his games and leadership. Chief Bromden's paranoia consumes him and ultimately left the end of the story in shambles.