Gilbert Grape Relationships

‘What’s eating Gilbert Grape?’ is the captivating film that directed by Lasse Hallstrom based on Peter Hedges’ novel of the same name. It is about Gilbert and his daily work, his behaviour with his family and the townsfolk especially a strong relationship develops between Gilbert and Becky. The ways they feel about each other and people around them are reflected in their actions and conservations and those screens make the film be more attractive and attached with the viewers so it is not really difficult to realise the difference and similarity between them.
First, the relationships of Gilbert with other characters are more commodious than Becky because he has lived in Endora for a long time even though Becky always travels and doesn’t live permanently. …show more content…
Gibert is the male head of his family after his father died so that he has a lot of thoughts which are always frustrated, negative and he is depressed by things around him. But he is not a bad man because he thinks for people around him before thinking about himself by the way he desires that he wants a new house, his Momma to take aerobics, Ellen-his younger sister to grow up and a new brain for Arnie. He really loves his family but he finds it difficult to appear all his thinking. In the other hand, Becky is a thoughtful, optimistic and motivative woman who lives worldly, freely and sends her energy to everyone who has met her. Honestly, all the good adjectives in the world can be just to describe for her personality because what she thinks and does different from other people, not only she said, “I’m not into that external beauty thing because it doesn’t last. It’s what you do that matters” to convey message to everyone but she also praised Gilbert’s mother and makes she feel more proud of herself. It seems that Becky represents for the good side in Gilbert’s soul and that constitutes the viewers’ belief in the predestination of Gilbert and