Endearing in many ways, Alison Bechdel’s autobiography, Fun Home, shows readers that stories, metaphors, and archetypes can allow us to comprehend a person’s troubles. Allison’s characters embody transformative aspects where they become ciphers and reflections of people living in the real world. Furthermore, Allison’s recollections of a family unit that was physically, intellectually, and emotionally monopolized by her father, Bruce Bechdel, echoes fictional allusions of an unconventional storyline as a way to broadcast multiple perspectives. For instance, Camus’ ‘A Happy...
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The theme of sexuality and gender identity is apparent throughout the memoir, Fun Home. It introduces two distinctly different coming-to age stories of a father and daughter dealing with their sexuality. The novel highlights moments of struggle each character experiences when they discover that their identities differ from the expectations that are being promoted by their society. Much of what the novel says about what makes us who we are is contributed to the acceptance we hold true for ourselves....
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In the graphic memoir titled Fun Home, by Allison Bechdel, sexual self-discovery is one of the criteria for the development of the main character. Furthermore, Bechdel depicts the plethora of factors that are pivotal in the shaping of who she is before, during and after her sexual self-development. Bechdel’s anguish and pain begins with all of her accounts that she encountered at home, with her respective family member – most importantly her father – at school, and the community she...
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Out of all the mental health struggles that Alison goes through throughout Fun Home, I wish she would have explained her obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) more. She later refers to it as her “obsessive-compulsive year”, and she is never shown to seek treatment for it through medicine or therapy, so it was not a major part of her life; but as a person with autism and OCD symptoms that I struggle with myself, I wanted to see more how this affected...
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Fun Home: a family tragicomic is a graphic memoir written by Alison Bechdel. This graphic memoir is about Bechdel’s childhood from 8 years old to her early 20s and during the process, she discovered her sexual orientation/own lesbian sexuality, as well as some dark secrets of her father(Bruce). When people first see Fun Home, would probably assume Bechdel using the memoir to reveal the story of her childhood and her relationship with her father but the memoir is more than...
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The path from one’s childhood to their adulthood has never been a narrow, easy path, it is one filled with numerous obstacles that can make it feel like your entire world is collapsing around you, while providing you no way out. This is prevalent in Alison Bechdel’s, “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic” and Phoebe Gloeckner’s “The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures”. Bechdel’s graphic novel memoir centers around her relationship with her emotionally detached father,...
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Fun Home: a Family tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel, deals with the difficulties that a father and daughter face with sexuality/ being gay. Alison Bechdel realizes that Bruce and her are on opposite side of the Kinsey scale regarding their gender preferences. The story pursuit an understanding of how Bruce and Alison differently perceive their sexual preferences. We can wonder, how does she represent their differences in the graphic memoir ? Fun Home begins with Alison describing her father’s personality, by...
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What aspects can define what Popular Literature is? How is control a crucial aspect of Popular Literature? Popular literature is intended for large audiences and requires a certain level of engagement and entertainment. It is accompanied by many different aspects that can help showcase a good understanding of the story. Fun Home: A Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel published in 2006, surrounds the story of her childhood and youth by focusing on her complex upbringing and relationship with her father, Bruce....
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The tragicomic Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel, is generally considered one of the most important pieces of the modern LGBTQ canon of literature. The graphic novel tells the story of Alison Bechdel’s attempt to find the truth about her father’s sexuality and what lead him to possibly commit suicide. Along the way, Bechdel finds her own sexuality. Bechdel’s choice to write about her and her father’s simultaneous journey to finding their sexuality was revolutionary at the time. Very few authors...
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It is undeniably that clothing and material surface plays an imperative role in the development of understanding one’s self since it reinforces gender binaries that ultimately dictate how we interact within the wider world. Undoubtedly, Alison Bechdel’s premise in her family tragicomic, Fun Home, is to simply understand herself through copious amounts of literature references and discourses regarding gender dynamics. As Bechdel interrogates identities that sit beyond the constraints of society, her intertexts allow her to navigate within a ‘binaried’...
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