“What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” There are many issues that many of us go through. I am going to analyze the characters of . This specific movie has great use of symbolic issues that happen in everyday life. The main character is Gilbert Grape, who is played by Johnny Depp. Gilbert probably has the most issues to deal with in this movie. Since Gilbert’s father had hung himself, his mother had become very overweight. His mothers obesity was one of Gilbert’s biggest problems, he was unable to take care of the family Gilbert assumed ....