6/13/2023 0 Comments Arnie grape![]() ![]() Gilbert is annoyed by Lance’s celebrity, especially since everyone in town-including Gilbert’s own family-thinks he is fantastic. On the Fourth of July, a former classmate of Gilbert’s, Lance Dodge, who is now a local celebrity as a television reporter, returns home to visit his mother. While he is in his second-grade classroom, Gilbert reveals that he had a bathroom accident there while worrying about his father’s well-being. Becky takes him there and makes him use a piece of chalk to say goodbye to each classroom. Gilbert learns that his old school, which has been shut down for seven years, will be burned down as practice for the local fire department. However, rather than back off, Gilbert continues to seek her out, and Becky continues to show up at his house. At this point, he learns Becky is only 15. However, he continues to run into her, even having breakfast with her grandmother. ![]() Becky acts erratically, causing Gilbert to grow frustrated and decide she’s not worth his infatuation. Lamson asks Gilbert to deliver it for her. Gilbert meets Becky again when she purchases a watermelon at Lamson Grocery, and Mr. ![]() They rarely come home, however, with Larry returning home only on Arnie’s birthday each year. Both of them have jobs that pay well and send home checks to help care for Bonnie, Arnie, and Ellen. The party will include Gilbert’s two older siblings who have left the home, Larry and Janice. Bonnie’s wish was always to live long enough to see Arnie turn 18, because the doctors predicted he would not live that long. Carver takes his rejection hard and demands her husband come home to console her.Īt home, the family makes plans for Arnie’s birthday party. However, after meeting Becky, Gilbert feels his interest in Mrs. ![]() Carver to meet in her home for sexual encounters. It turns out that these appointments are a cover for Gilbert and Mrs. On Thursday, Gilbert makes a new appointment with Mr. Gilbert and Tucker work on a support for the floor under Bonnie’s chair, which is sagging they inadvertently put the support in the same place where Albert died of suicide. While Tucker is excited by this idea, Gilbert is apathetic. At the same time, he learns that a new fast-food restaurant, Burger Barn, is being built next to Food Land. On a later visit to his friend Tucker’s home, he learns that most of the young men in town have seen this girl and want to get to know her. Gilbert meets Becky there, a beautiful young woman who is new in town. Gilbert misses this appointment because he goes to visit his father’s grave and falls asleep in the sun.Īmy asks Gilbert to pick Ellen up at Dairy Dream, the ice cream parlor where she works. Betty Carver, reminds him that he didn't pay his insurance premium and suggests he make an appointment with her husband, Mr. Gilbert works at a small grocery store, Lamson Grocery, which is struggling to survive due to the opening of the larger and more modern grocery store, Food Land, across town. As the novel opens, Arnie and Gilbert are watching the carnival arrive in town and counting down the days until Arnie’s 18th birthday. Caring for Arnie, who has an intellectual disability, is Gilbert’s primary focus. For this reason, Amy and Gilbert are responsible for running the household. In the years following her husband's death, Bonnie became disabled by severe obesity. Living with him in the home are his older sister, Amy younger sister, Ellen younger brother, Arnie and mother, Bonnie. Gilbert Grape lives in Endora, Iowa, in the home his father, Albert, built. In addition, the source material includes derogatory terms for intellectual disabilities and obesity that are omitted from this guide, other than within direct quotes from the novel. This study guide is based on the Simon and Schuster paperback, 1991.Ĭontent Warning: The source material for this study guide includes discussions of suicide, intellectual disabilities, and obesity. ![]()
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