Submitted by Myriam Mahiques
The Metaphor in Gilbert Grapes House: Building or Body?
Architecture News - Nov 13, 2009 - 04:32 8810 views
I have selected the novel of “What’s eating Gilbert Grape”, by Peter Hedges, to show a symbolic condition that invites us to make the connection between the obese mother and her house. Most essays on this novel have as a central point the relationship between Gilbert and his retarded brother, and set aside the underlying association between the mother and the house, that I take as an unconscious assumption of life and death.
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