Stereo Types in "the seachers"

REPRESENTATIONS IN JOHN FORDS “THE SEARCHERS”
In the film, ‘The Searches’, originally written as a novel by Alan Le May, John Ford (director) explores the themes incest and miscegenation. In the film, John Ford, uses stereotypes to construct his plot and create his characters. The main characters in the film, being Ethan, Martin, Scar, Look and Debbie are all shaped by white American stereotypes of the 1950’s.
Ethan, a respected war veteran, is represented as a wise but shifty character, (e.g. the freshly minted coins), the silent and mostly outspoken character is proteid in a way that he is a good person but is on the run. He is not proteid as being solely evil, like the Indians, but has just made an error and wishes to rectify it, for e.g. Ethan says he wants to sign up to the rangers but refuses to say the oath, this shows two things; he wants to make up for what he has done, and that he is not ready to say he is innocent. Ethan is a white American male who is represente...