| A | B |
| pretending to be deaf and mute - chronic patient | Bromden / Chief Broom / Chief |
| avoiding prison work farm - stirring things up on the ward | McMurphy / Randall / Mac |
| was once the bull-goose looney because he has a college degree | Harding |
| youngest patient on the ward - stutters | Billy Bibbit |
| they hate enough - seems as though they sexually assult the patients | the orderlies |
| a complainer and follower | Cheswick |
| a patient that is able to be "fixed" | acute |
| a patient that may never be "fixed" | chronic |
| works digging ditches - "treatment" robbed him of a personality - considered to be a "successful dismissal" | Taber |
| body "frozen" in a Christ-like postion - wets himself often | Ellis |
| result of an unsuccessful lobotomy - holds a faded picture of his wife | Ruckley |
| hands over all power to Nurse Rached - has a drug problem and steals narcotics from the ward | Dr. Spivey |