Donna Steiner suggests a couple of things about stereotypes. She describes her roommate as an alcoholic with all the most common symptoms of your typical drunk. She suggests that her roommate could be something more than just a person who drinks to get drunk. She interviews her roommate as to what could get her to quit drinking and finds that love could possibly get her to stop. This, I assume, implies to her that her roommate is drinking as an empty person who can't get out of her situation, not a common drunk that has an addiction. I think that her story suggests that stereotypes can be misleading because you can never really know the truth about someone until you actually listen to what they have to say. When I read the story, I immediately stereotyped the roommate as being a party animal. Contrary to that, I also stereotyped the first person as a straight edge person. I mean someone that rarely does anything that is potentially harmful to themselves. An example would be someone that never breaks there morals not even once. I wish I didn't stereotype people so quickly, but it just comes natural. It's like stereotyping comes from being a product of my own environment. People around me stereotype, and so do I. Now that I have read the entire story my views of the people didn't change much. I believe that someone that drinks to the point of drowning out there problems is a drunk. They use alcohol to escape from their life. I wouldn't think it was so bad if it didn't affect the people around them, but it does. The last paragraph of the story is what really upset me. The roommate has to get up at three a.m. to make sure that her roommate doesn't get hurt while crawling into bed. I believe drunks are stereotyped because they affect people around them. This is why my views didn't change much for the first persons roommate.