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Gaston By William Saroyan
In the short story Gaston by William Saroyan uses the bug, Gaston, and the peach to symbolize the girl’s father. In the story there is a girl whose parents are divorced and during the story she is with her dad. Her mom is also so rich and her dad is poor. The girl’s dad buys a kilo of peaches and within the peaches, there is a bad peach with a a bug. They continue to have a conversation about Gaston and the girl soon wants a peach with a bug inside of it. The father leaves to go get more peaches and while the girl is alone the mother calls. The girl tells her mother her experience with her father so far and the mother convinces the girl to kill the bug. When the father comes back with the flawed peaches the girl doesn’t want it anymore. In
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