Gaston the Lonely Bug
Gaston the Lonely Bug
Parents happiness is to have a family, and not to be lonely. Not all parents have an easy life, full of happiness and joy. There are those families that are happy, but there are also families with a broken home. The children of that broken home are the main victims of the struggle between the parents. In this short story “Gaston” by William Saroyan, the father is symbolized as the bug Gaston. This story takes place around a table, in the fathers apartment in Paris. The characters in this story are the father, mother, daughter, and the bug Gaston. This story begins when the daughter went to visit her father. They sat around the table to eat some peaches, after the daughters nap. One of the peaches had a bug in it, which is Gaston. The daughter wanted to kill Gaston, but the father changed her mind by convincing her that Gaston is like them. She liked Gaston in the beginning, until she talked with her mother, who told her that Gaston is only a bug, and it isn’t like them. She also convinced her to go back home. Therefore, the daughter killed Gaston. At the end of the story, the daughter lessoned to her mother and left her father feeling like Gaston. The father and Gaston are alike for several reasons that include, they both lost their home, they both are facing a new life on their own, and they both feel pain and are alone after loosing everything.
The first reason why the father and Gaston are alike is that they both lost their homes. According to Saroyan, the father said “well, he used to live in this peach seed, but now that the peach has been harvested and sold, and I have eaten half of it, it looks as if he’s out of house and home” (3). The father is explaining his feelings through Gaston, and how he once had a home and lived with his wife and daughter, but as problems took over it broke up the family and separated them from each other. As how Gaston had a home,
Parents happiness is to have a family, and not to be lonely. Not all parents have an easy life, full of happiness and joy. There are those families that are happy, but there are also families with a broken home. The children of that broken home are the main victims of the struggle between the parents. In this short story “Gaston” by William Saroyan, the father is symbolized as the bug Gaston. This story takes place around a table, in the fathers apartment in Paris. The characters in this story are the father, mother, daughter, and the bug Gaston. This story begins when the daughter went to visit her father. They sat around the table to eat some peaches, after the daughters nap. One of the peaches had a bug in it, which is Gaston. The daughter wanted to kill Gaston, but the father changed her mind by convincing her that Gaston is like them. She liked Gaston in the beginning, until she talked with her mother, who told her that Gaston is only a bug, and it isn’t like them. She also convinced her to go back home. Therefore, the daughter killed Gaston. At the end of the story, the daughter lessoned to her mother and left her father feeling like Gaston. The father and Gaston are alike for several reasons that include, they both lost their home, they both are facing a new life on their own, and they both feel pain and are alone after loosing everything.
The first reason why the father and Gaston are alike is that they both lost their homes. According to Saroyan, the father said “well, he used to live in this peach seed, but now that the peach has been harvested and sold, and I have eaten half of it, it looks as if he’s out of house and home” (3). The father is explaining his feelings through Gaston, and how he once had a home and lived with his wife and daughter, but as problems took over it broke up the family and separated them from each other. As how Gaston had a home,