What Do Gaston Mean

French: from the Old French oblique case of a Germanic personal name, originally probably a byname from gasti ‘stranger’, ‘guest’, ‘host’. Compare Guest.

Why is Gaston important in Beauty and the Beast?

Gaston is the main antagonist of Disney’s 1991 animated feature film, Beauty and the Beast. He was an arrogant and chauvinistic hunter who was greedily determined to have Belle’s hand in marriage, even by force if necessary.

Why is Gaston so obsessed with Belle?

He has no connection to Belle or her father, Maurice, and wants to marry her for a simple, reductive reason: He thinks she’s the prettiest girl in town. To Gaston, he is every woman’s dream — and it’s unthinkable that anyone would want much more than a provincial life with him and his latest kill roasting by the fire.