<P> During his short stay at the hospital, McMurphy forms deep friendships with two of his fellow patients: Billy Bibbit, a stuttering manchild whom Ratched has dominated into a suicidal mess; and Chief Bromden, a selectively mute Native American . In the former, McMurphy sees a younger brother figure whom he wants to teach to have fun, while the latter is his only real confidant . </P> <P> McMurphy becomes ensnared in a number of power - games with Nurse Ratched . He ends up as the clear winner, reminding the other patients how to enjoy life and stand up for themselves, and persuading them to act out against Ratched's bullying . Ratched unsuccessfully tries to break his spirit through repeated shock therapy treatments . </P> <P> In the novel's climax, McMurphy sneaks two prostitutes into the ward to take Billy's virginity, while he and the others throw a party . Ratched catches them and threatens to tell Billy's mother--the only woman he fears more than her--which terrifies him so much that he commits suicide by slitting his throat . Enraged, McMurphy attacks Ratched and nearly strangles her, but is knocked unconscious by one of her associates . For this, Ratched has McMurphy lobotomized, which is to be seen as a kind of castration: "If she (Ratched) can't cut below the belt she'll do it above the eyes". Chief Bromden smothers McMurphy in an act of euthanasia, and then breaks a window to flee from the asylum, fulfilling McMurphy's wish for him to be free . </P> <P> Richard Gray, author of A History of American Literature, said that McMurphy is an "authentic American rebel", an urban cowboy, plain - speaking, hard - living, a gambler and a risk - taker," and "the hero" of the story . Glen O. Gabbard and Krin Gabbard, authors of Psychiatry and the Cinema, write that McMurphy "becomes a Christ figure for whom shock therapy is the crown of thorns and lobotomy the cross". </P>

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