Being an asian there are many stereotypes that people categorize me before actually getting to know me. It’s been a common thing and at times it does get annoying because your being put in such a general category that might not define you. Even so, I understand why people stereotype and I do admit I stereotype people as well. I believe everyone stereotypes and although we know it’s a bad thing, we do it unintentionally because it’s easy to just label and and categorize people into groups. Although Alexie was stereotyping Native American’s as alcoholics in his story “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” I do not think it was his intent was to be malicious.

I think it was clear that Jackson had major alcohol problems throughout the story. Almost every