Gilbert In The Film What's Eating Gilbert Grape

In the film, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Gilbert, who is the main character, has a brother named Arnie, a sister Ellen and Amy. They live in the small town of Endora. Gilbert works in a tiny grocery, Lamson ’s Grocery, which is being threatened by the new and tremendous supermarket ‘Food Land’. He falls in love with a lady named Becky who travels to Endora with her grandmother in a campervan. He is having an affair with a married woman named Betty Carver. Gilbert looks after Bonnie who has never left her house in seven years since his husband commited suicide. She spends almost all of her time on the sofa watching TV and eating: due to her obesity she can’t even look after herself. Therefore, Gilbert has to take on the responsibility to