Big Black Good Man Character Analysis

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Olaf Jenson and Argus Filch Olaf Jenson from Big Black Good Man by Richard Wright has a unique character. He is almost sixty years old and has a wife named Karen, but no children. His eyes were stones of gray and he wore thick glasses. He is portrayed with always having a beer, and sometimes a cigar as well. He used to be a sailor, and he likes them because they remind him of his youth. Olaf is a night clerk at a hotel in Copenhagen. He gives the guests a room, and also attends to their needs. The character that would best play his role in a movie version of the short story would be David Bradley. He plays Argus Filch in the Harry Potter series. The students call him “Filch” and he is a caretaker who patrols the halls of Hogwarts at night, making sure students are not out past the curfew. Filch is portrayed as this cruel person, but in reality it is all just an act. This correlates to Olaf’s character because Olaf wanted so…show more content…
He is a very nervous person, as is Filch. When they both are placed in an intimidating situation they get really nervous and I could imagine that Olaf would have a slight stutter in those situations like Filch. They are both dynamic character. It is not until the end that they realize they were in the wrong and wish they did not act the way they did. They were both essentially on the “wrong side” of the situations they encountered and once they realized so it was almost too late. Both characters are capable of intense hatred. When the big black man left, Olaf planned his death, and wanted revenge on him. He “learned how to hate and got pleasure out of it.” Filch got pleasure out of catching students breaking the rules and getting them in trouble. It is almost as though they are both power hungry characters. They are desperately trying to prove they have power when they really do not. They want to be the ones who intimidate others, not vise

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