In “Gaston,” by William Saroyan, the author uses symbolism to convey the theme socially distant. For example, the girl and her father aren’t that close, but she and her mother a pretty close. The girl describes her dad as a “total stranger” and that “they had been together again”(pg.1). She says that she doesn’t quite remember because she was small at the time so they don’t really have a bond. While eating peaches her dad notices that there is a bug in his peach the bug’s name is Gaston. “Where is Gaston” “I squashed him” the girl’s father asks her why and her response was “everybody squashes bugs and worms” (pg.3). The girl squishes Gaston because her mother told her that a bug is supposed to be squished. After the girl left her father went