Prejudice thoughts are based on the way the look and their physical features is the meaning behind the famous saying “Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover.” Although in current times it seems to happen less and might seem childish, in this short story, by Richard Wright in the, “Big Black Good Man,” judging people before one gets to know them happens to people of all ages. This story is written in a time where prejudice was a major part of life. Today we still have prejudice but not not bad as back when this was written. The reader is questioning if Olaf is prejudiced or merely just, “judging a book by its cover.” Wright uses the point of view angle, underlying the theme and the character, to give the reader the sense we are in Olaf’s head. It allows the reader to feel the contrast between the characters point of view and choice of setting from the beginning to the end of the short story. The reader will try to understand Olaf’s thoughts and judgments to see if he is merely prejudiced or just jumping the gun. “Big Black Good man,” is set in Denmark, sometime in the 1950’s. Although the Civil rights movement did not take place till the 1960’s Denmark is more open to diversity in society then the United States. The story opens with a middle class elderly white man named Olaf, who works at a hotel’s check in desk at nights. When Jim, a black sailor, comes in asking Olaf for a room, Olaf, right away fails to answers the man’s question because he is immediately intimidated by the man. Olaf then starts to look over that man and judging him. Olaf describes the man as, “towered darkly some six and a half feet into the air, almost touching the ceiling and its skin was so black that is had a bluish tint. And the sheer bulk of the man!... His chest bulged like a barrel; his rocklike and humped shoulders hinted of mountains ridges; the stomach ballooned like a threading stone; and the legs like telephone poles The big b