I feel that in the beginning of McMurphy and the Nurse's battle, McMurphy is ahead. His hardy, excited attitude is something the Nurse was not expecting and isn't used to. It takes her by suprise and she doesn't know how to deal with it. McMurphy "gets her goat" onn several occassions and she seems to start to crack, but just at the peak of her fury she calms herself down. McMurphy is still swinging hard. He takes every opportunity he can to disrupt the ward's order, but something about the nurse has changed. She is stronger. The way Chief dissapointedly describes the series of events after her near-crack shows that the Nurse has some terrifying steel core that she has set back into place. Her head hasn't jerked in awhile, she has full control again and she knows it, and even though McMurphy might think he's doing everything she hates,the Chief realizes that she has fixed herself and is now unbreakable.
The entrance of McMurphy into the life of Chief has definitely made Chief more curious in the ongoings of the patients. He is usually exceptionally observant, but now he really has a reason to listen, a call to battle. McMurphy knows that chief is deaf from the beginning and this kind of forges an automatic silent tie between them, they understand the same things about the Big Nurse, the ward and the institution as a whole. McMurphy makes Chief stronger, bigger, he makes him brave.
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