I simply give up.Father: What are you going to give up?Charlie: Have you ever stopped to think that a family should be the most wonderful thing in the world and that this family""s just gone o pieces?Father: We have?Charlie: Of course we have.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).She aggressively lights the flame, looking at him with her wide expressive eyes.She flings the used match backward out the door, tosses the box of matches back at him, turns and leaves without any emotion: "Thanks.The fog hides the reality of life for many inhabitants in the area.Now - Limehouse knows him only as a Chink store-keeper.Ravaged by drug abuse after becoming disillusioned, his mission has failed both personally and spiritually.