Through the movie `what's eating Gilbert grape', the characters Gilbert and Betty Carver not only show love and responsibility but frustration towards some of the most special people in there life. Both characters show a lot of love and responsibility but they also show signs of frustration when the both of them reach there boiling point.

Gilbert is a very strong and loving person when it comes to his family and always wants and does what is best for Bonnie, Amy, Arnie & Ellen. Also after the death of Gilberts father, Albert, Gilbert has had to step up and be the man of the house, being the father like figure showering off love and responsibility, but Gilbert cracks once the pressure is high and breaks out in a birth of frustration.

Ellen's annoying & bitching ways lead to Gilbert snapping. In the scene where Ellen constantly blows on her annoying...