Oh yes, I definitely agree that Gaston was creepy and obsessive. His feelings for Belle remind me of this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSI-Wk00rVw And speaking of the word monstrous, what makes angry about that interpretation of Beauty and the Beast is that I sometimes get the feeling that people go harder on the Beast because his monstrous form makes him more intimidating than Gaston, who's a human.