However, after meeting Jim, a tall, huge, black skinned muscular black American, his thoughts showed hatred and discrimination between white American and black American. He started hating him so much that he did not wanted Jim to stay at his hotel for his next visit (Gelfant and Graver 595)
Thus, story reflects true racism caused between the two i.e. white American and black African-Americans (Sanders 98)
Characters The story revolves mainly around Jim, a black American and Olaf Jenson, a white American. The story clearly demonstrated that racism is more found in white Americans, than in black Americans (Ward and Butler 112)
However, as stated in the story that "…this particular black man…Well, he didn't seem human. Too big, too black, too loud, too direct, and probably too violent to boot…Olaf's five feet seven inches scarcely reached the black giant's shoulder and his frail body weighed less, perhaps, then one of the man's gigantic legs…There was something about the man's intense blackness and ungainly bigness that frightened and insulted Olaf: he felt as though this man had come here expressly to remind him how puny, how tiny, and how weak and how white he was… for the first time in his life, he was emotionally determined to refuse a man a room solely on the basis of the man's size and color" (Wright 208) a fear entered into Olaf that breed hate due to Jim's being huge, strong and black
Quite suddenly the stereotypes which have been pushing him into senseless violence are dissolved by this spontaneous act of friendship, leading both to see each other as "good men" rather than adversaries intent on victimizing each other." (Butler) Big Black Good Man is an illustration of the two different realities that black people and white people live in
Olaf Jensen feels that his race is threatened by Jim." (Gounard et al