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Gender stereotyping becomes an effective way to confine and conditionthe genders into specific roles, behaviours, and actions. The stories in Grimm’s Fairy Tales represent and lay down standards of behaviour that is expected from the male and female gender. Character representations in Grimm’s Fairy Tales evidently portrays that gender stereotyping is not restricted only to female characters, but also to the male characters as well.Inthe text, female characters are portrayed as naïve, meek, vulnerable, and dependent on males, whereas male characters are represented as courageous, brave, unafraid, and independent. Through interpretative analysis of the text, the study aims to identify and analyse how stereotyping works in the plots and establish that stereotyping is not confined to one specific gender in the select fairy tales of Brothers Grimm, by keeping Gender Studies as a larger framework.