As stated in the article Ken Kesey’s Indian Narrator: A Sweeping Stereotype, by Peter Beidler, “The murder of the father is in this case highly complex, for Chief Bromden suffocates the recently lobotomized McMurphy in a murder that is at the same time an expression of his love for McMurphy, a demonstration of his revenge against Big Nurse, and an assertion of his independence from both.” This part of the novel solidifies Chief Bromden as the hero, as he, as thought of as Bromden just as the sidekick. This is also stated by Cengage Learning Gale in A Study Guide for Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, when they say “It is not until the very end of the novel.that it becomes clear that Bromden has surpassed his teacher in the capacity to survive in American society.” Bromden then realizes he has done all he needed to do and must leave, so he returns to society, and to his free space. The archetype that McMurphy best represents in the overall story is the rebel archetype, however, he also shows pieces of the mentor archetype as he helps guide Bromden through his hero’s