What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (Chapter 27, part 3) The fiction novel What’s Eating Gilbert Grape written by Peter Hedges takes place in a small, very small town in Iowa called Endora. Everyone knows each other by name The main character Gilbert lives in this town with his obese mother; Bonnie, slutty 15 year-old sister; Ellen, a soon to be 18 year-old brother with autism; Arnie and a older 34 year old sister, Amy. They all live in this house that was built by their father who committed suicide by hanging himself when Gilbert was seven. Gilbert, the main character,is 24 years old and he is his brother’s protector, as well as the breadwinner in the home, the family is dependent on him and his grocery store job. It can be assumed that Gilbert
