Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Miscellaneous Olaf and Jim Olaf and Jim Olaf’s hatred toward Jim in the “Big Black Good Man” was unnecessary. His fear of Jim is what initially caused this hatred. Olaf had no reason to fear or hate Jim. He hated Jim just because of who he was; a “Big Black Good Man” (Wright 265). Olaf’s hatred of Jim is manifested in several ways throughout the story; when he called Jim a nigger, after his conversation with Lena, and his fantasy of a white shark eating Jim. Olaf’s first sign of hatred is when he called Jim a nigger in his thoughts. In the story he was wondering to himself about “Why was he so damned worked up and nervous about a nigger and white whore?” (Wright 266). Olaf hated Jim so much that he called him out of his name. To Olaf, Jim was not even a black man; he was just a big black nigger. Olaf used the word to boost his self-esteem in order to make Jim seem like a nobody. In the story Olaf said that he was not prejudice, but to use the word nigger to classify Jim was uncalled for. When Olaf used the word nigger to refer to Jim, it showed the beginning stages of his hatred for Jim. Another example of Olaf’s hatred for Jim was after his conversation with Lena. It states in the story “Try as he might, he could not shake off a primitive hate for that black mountain of energy” (Wright 267). The reason Olaf could not shake off his hatred for Jim was that Lena was not scared of Jim like he was. Olaf did not like how Jim instilled fear in him. He did not like how Lena handled Jim like she stated before coming over to the hotel. He also did not like the idea that he was the only one that was scared of this huge black man. All of the things running through Olaf’s head were another reason he came to hate Jim. Olaf’s true hate was shown through his fantasy of a white shark eating Jim. In this fantasy; Olaf’s hatred of Jim was shown the strongest. Olaf’s fantasy was that the ship Jim was on would sink and a white shark would come and eat Jim. The white shark represented was Olaf himself. Olaf hated Jim so much that he wished he was a shark nibbling on Jim’s flesh. Olaf used this fantasy out of hate as a way of getting back at Jim for the shame he caused him. Olaf states in the story, “The ship would sink slowly to the bottom of the cold, black, silent depths of the sea and a shark, a white one, would glide aimlessly about the shut portholes until it found an open one and it would slither inside and nose about until it found that swollen, rotting, stinking carcass of the black beast and it would then begin to nibble at the decomposing mass of tar like flesh, eating the bones clean” (Wright 269). Throughout the story Olaf’s hatred is shown for Jim. It becomes a little stronger after his conversation with Lena, his fantasy of a white shark eating Jim, and when he called Jim a nigger, . Olaf did not have a good reason to hate Jim because Jim did nothing to him. After each situation, Olaf’s hatred seemed to increase. He hated Jim for what he was; a normal black man looking for women and whiskey. Olaf just let unnecessary situations with Jim turn his flame of hatred into a fire. Bibliography: There is none Word Count: 599
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