Stereotypes In Good Will Hunting

Good Will Hunting
The world is made up of stereotypes, and within those stereotypes there are often times different classes. In the America that we live in, there are three general classes. The upper class is thought to be snobby people who think that they are too good for any of the other classes. Middle class is considered to be the average American, a majority of citizens would consider themselves middle-class. Then there is lower class, people who have to work multiple jobs and still might not make as much money as they desire, or even need to live. The movie, Good Will Hunting, is based around the upper class, and the lower class. Will works as a janitor at MIT who is unexpectedly extremely smart, although he never applied himself. Will

He is the underdog, and everybody likes the underdogs in movies. Will makes many bad decisions, like beating people up, and they are overlooked by the viewer because we are on Will’s side and we want him to show up the snobby upper class people, like Professor Lambeau. The professor uses will’s knowledge to make himself, and the upper class, look better, and viewers see that, making us want Will to do well in spite of them. Professor Lambeau is a mathematics professor at MIT. Being that he is well of and is very fortunate. He is a very intelligent mathematician and is considered upper class. In the beginning of the movie he puts an extremely hard equation on the board outside of his classroom for a student to solve, that gets solved but Will. One of the professor’s students, a young attractive woman, tries to ask

He shows us that you do not need to be upper class to be as smart as someone in it. We like Will for his “I don’t care” attitude, and how he tells people in the upper class how it is. Will does some not-so-great things because of that attitude. Like when he told Professor Lambeau that the problems he was giving him were too easy, and they were problems Lambeau couldn’t even dream of solving. Will then proceeded to burn the problems because, well, he didn’t care. He wanted Lambeau to know that he was the smarter one in the relationship no matter their different classes. We like that Will did this because he stuck it to the upper class, and literally left the professor weeping over some math