First Cuckoo's Nest Blog

I would say the Nurse is the Villain of this story because she is a "ball-cutter" and she is a very hateful person who takes advantage of these men. She makes the patients feel, "like frightened , desperate, and ineffectual rabbits" scared for their own skins. She even spent a prolonged amount of time finding employees who had "just the right amount of hate". The protagonist, McMurphy, is also and anti-hero. he is not a very good person, seeing as how he gambles and fights, but the fact that he is trying to liven up life in the Ward and free the patients from the tyrannical rule of the Nurse is noble.