The driver was transformed into fire-scarred child molester Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), with a bladed right-hand glove with razor-sharp talons and his rademark fedora hat and red/green striped sweater, who had commandeered he bus.And 6"" 8" tall, ""mute"" native American Chief Bromden, a paranoid schizophrenic, narrated the story and was the central character in the novel, providing hallucinatory images of an all-powerful, all-seeing bureaucratic ""harvesting machine"" designed to foster complete social integration - a Combine, that would squelch all individuality and create a compliant society (both within the hospital and in the wider society).His own "practical joke" was designed to give her a taste of her own medicine - and to put her "on the other end of a gag" [a foreshadowing of the film""s plot]:Mitch: We met in court.And Izzy claimed that the diamond was "half" his, although Jonathan replied: "I have no idea what you""re talking about.You want it? Hmm?Kathie: No.Johnny: (He pushes it towards her on the counter.) Well, go on, take it, go ahead.Kathie: No!Johnny: Go on.Kathie: Can""t do that.You won it.You have to get your name engraved on it, or whatever you do.It""s important to you.You don""t - you don""t give something like that away just like that, not unless you knew a girl real well and, well, you liked her.