How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Quote #7
Chief Bromden: I'm not going without you, Mac. I won't leave you here this way.
Here's a nice moment of friendship, right? When Chief Bromden realizes that McMurphy has had a lobotomy, he decides he won't let McMurphy live as a zombie. So he decides to set McMurphy free by killing him. Thanks?
Quote #8
Chief Bromden: You're coming with me. Let's go.
At first, Chief Bromden doesn't realize that McMurphy has had a lobotomy. He tells McMurphy that he (Chief) has finally gathered the courage to leave the hospital. But it's too late, because only at this second does he realizes that part of McMurphy's brain has been cut out.
Quote #9
Sefelt: They were taking him through the tunnel. He beat up two of the attendants and escaped.
After McMurphy disappears for a while, rumors start to circulate about how he escaped from the hospital. These rumors help show how much McMurphy's free spirit has infected the imaginations of other people in the mental ward. Maybe it's better for them to imagine him free—rather than lobotomized, that is.