ipl-logo

Character Analysis Of What's Eating Gilbert Grape

798 Words4 Pages

What’s eating Gilbert Grape In the film, what’s eating Gilbert Grape, the two main characters Gilbert and Becky are very different in terms of their relationships with other characters as well as beliefs, values and attitides. Furthermore, Gilbert and Becky are very different in how they change to response to events. Two main characters Gilbert and Becky have many different relationships with other characters in the film. Gilbert and Becky are very different. Gilbert is always frustrated, because he has to work everyday to bring the money to his family and he has the responsibility towards his brother-Arnie, Gilbert says “some day you want to Arnie to live and some day you don’t.” and his family as well as the father’s role. He also selfless because he always …show more content…

In contrast Becky is always optimistic, she also thinks about herself, however, she is not selfish. She thinks about herself and others at the same time, because Gilbert is important to Becky as well, compared to Gilbert never thinks about himself. Moreover, the relationship between Gilbert and his brother-Arnie is similar to a father and his son, for example: Gilbert is always taking care of his brother-Arnie, Arnie is always doing the wrong things and he doesn’t know what he is doing at the same time, however, Gilbert always shows him the right way. And the relatioships between Gilbert and his mommy Bonnie couldn’t be like a mother and

Show More
Related
402 Words | 2 Pages

Bonnie spends a great deal of her time sitting on the couch viewing television, eating, and uttering the responsibilities of each Grape child. As a result of Bonnie’s obesity, Gilbert is given the duty of restoring the financially impoverished Grape home. Through all of these burdens, Gilbert understands that his future is impeded and feels his life lacks direction, albeit his love for his brother Arnie is unquestioned. Gilbert’s life deviates when Becky, a unique young woman, enters his life. Becky

Read More
1272 Words | 6 Pages

Symbolism in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape Do you ever feel like you are falling? Like you are dreaming about falling and when you do fall you wake up? But it’s not a dream and you actually are falling? The Grape family lives in Endora, Iowa they are a far from normal family who are struggling through life ever since their father committed suicide. Gilbert Grape is the main character he is 24 years old.

Read More
635 Words | 3 Pages

When they had a family fight, Gilbert left during dinner time and didn’t came back until the next day and Mrs. Grape lectured him and told him that she couldn’t think that she could be strong enough to manage someone else leaving

Read More
1055 Words | 5 Pages

Gilbert slowly starts to lose it with Arnie, and even abuses him towards the end when he misbehaved and wouldn’t get in the shower. Gilbert is so shocked from his action that he took off and spent the night with Becky. He showed up the next day for Arnies birthday and made up with his brother and the rest of the family. At the end of the film, the mother passes away and Becky leaves the town, only to return a year later for Arnie’s nineteenth

Read More
1029 Words | 5 Pages

Gilbert is taken with Becky’s beauty, but Becky wants him to be more emotionally healthy before being involved in a relationship with him. Becky and Mrs. Carver both offer him different prospects in the areas of escape from his unsatisfactory life, love, and healing from his past. In the area of escape, Mrs. Betty Carver provides Gilbert a physical escape from his misery. His family is dysfunctional, and he struggles to find a purpose in life, feeling trapped in

Read More
702 Words | 3 Pages

In Of Mice and Men, George demonstrates that you can be friends with who ever you want which can make unique friendship and being open minded, because he has a friend that has trouble controlling himself, but George still continued to help him and stay beside him. The story takes back in the day during the American great depression and people struggles to live in America. The two main characters in the story are George who is the sharp eyed hard worker and Lennie who is handicapped and has bad control of himself. George and Lennie are searching for work and Lennie who happens to cause trouble for George which gets in George’s way a lot and because of Lennie they had to leave the town, because they were interviewing job with the manager

Read More
713 Words | 3 Pages

Throughout the whole story Anne appreciates and respects her father. And Anne prefers to go to her father with problems rather than her mother. Compare and contrast the relationship between Anne and Peter at the beginning of the play and later on in the play. At the beginning of the play Anne did not pay attention to Peter.

Read More
1093 Words | 5 Pages

Katherine is seen as abusive and mean in both stories, but when taking a closer look most of her behavioural issues seem to stem from her insecurities. Bianca, Katherines younger

Read More
1001 Words | 5 Pages

Gilbert always wants things for others, but never asks for things for himself. We see this with concern and feel sorry for him as we know Gilbert is an understanding person and cares for others. As the film progresses, Gilbert opens up and stops repressing his feelings because of Becky. This is shown when she insists on asking what Gilbert want for him only, and through that we can also understand that Becky is the catalyst for Gilbert’s changes. This is important because Gilbert at last released his emotions instead of carrying all the weight of the family alone, suggesting he is starting to value himself more.

Read More
820 Words | 4 Pages

Flagg’s character Evelyn Couch is seen as a believable character, because the reader gets a bit of background on who she is and why she goes to the nursing home. In the novel, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Evelyn is described as a “forty-eight year old . . . [who] had gotten lost somewhere along the way” (37). After her children left to college Evelyn felt as if she did not know what to do with her life anymore, because before it revolved around her family and taking care of each one of them. In the late 1980’s women began to have more job opportunities; however, in Evelyn’s case she was already too old to go out and work for a company without having went to college.

Read More
1208 Words | 5 Pages

As the camera zooms out slowly and we hear crickets chirping, we are introduced to the charming world of “What’s eating Gilbert Grape”. The film that many have come to love, along with its extremely famous actors, was released in 1993 in the United States and directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Endora, Iowa is the home of the Grape family, it’s a small, unchanging town where the main character Gilbert (Johnny Depp) feels trapped and death seems to be the only way out. Gilbert provides for his mother, sisters, and his autistic brother, Arnie (Leonardo Di Caprio). “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” is in many ways an unrealistic and demeaning view of autism.

Read More
501 Words | 3 Pages

To be trapped in one's own mind may be the worst prison imaginable. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", the narrator of the story is constantly at battle with many different forces, such as John, her husband, the yellow wallpaper that covers the walls of her room, and ultimately herself. Throughout the story the narrator further detaches herself from her life and becomes fixated on the yellow wallpaper that surrounds her in her temporary home, slowly driving her mad. The narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a major and dynamic character as she is the main character of the story, and throughout the story her personality and ways of thinking change drastically.

Read More
973 Words | 4 Pages

Where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak is an interesting children’s picture book. The main character is a little boy named Max, who has a wild imagination. He uses all five senses as well as thought and his actions to express his personality as well as how he reacts and interacts with his surroundings. Max’s id, ego and super-ego are greatly shown in this book through the way that the author has portrayed him. Not only is this book a children’s story, but it can also be perceived as a life lesson.

Read More
1003 Words | 5 Pages

Finally, one similarity in both movies is that at the start of the movies, we could see that neither Gilbert nor Edward had any direction or major aspirations in life, until both deuterogamists are introduced, Becky in ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’ and Kim in ‘Edward Scissorhands’. A hard-cut shows Becky asking Gilbert life questions ‘What do you want for you, just for you?’ he struggles to answer the question, but Becky gives him a sense of meaning and self-worth, similarly where a medium shot of Kim and Edward in each other’s arms show that Edward now has someone who cares about him, giving him a sense of belonging and meaning. Consequently, it is very clear that these films have both used different camera angles to position the audience to see both common and contrasting elements that depict Edward and Gilbert as

Read More
609 Words | 3 Pages

Most people struggle with figuring out who they really are. The short story "Everyday Use,” written by  Alice Walker, emphasizes this aspect of individuality. It is about an African- American mother and her two daughters. The story concentrates on the lives of two sisters named Maggie and Dee(Wangero). Maggie is portrayed as a homely and ignorant girl, while Dee is portrayed as a beautiful and educated woman.

Read More

More about Character Analysis Of What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Related Topics

Open Document