`` Fun Home `` By Alison Bechdel

Hundreds of people are gathered around dancing, drinking, and having a good time. People are causally talking and laughing. Men and women from all around are having the “time of their life.” However, the lifestyle of the city, money, and connections don’t always create fulfilled, happy lives. For Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway, and Jay Gatsby, they are never alone but always isolated.

Authors from the 1920’s are among the most exceptional and famous writers of today, one of the greatest well-known being F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald wrote multiple extraordinary novels, though he is most accredited for The Great Gatsby. In this book he discloses essential truths about life, which are more relevant in today’s society than ever before. Within the article A Gatsby for Today, Sven Birkerts provides further insight to these truths and imparts the importance of their lessons. F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals important truths about life through the characters Jay Gatsby, who displays disillusionment, and Myrtle Wilson, who demonstrates hope.

Waverly was going to tell Lindo of her and Rich’s engagement, but whenever she mentioned him, Lindo cut her off and began to talk about something else. Waverly was convinced that her mother did not have any good intentions, and that she never saw good in people. Due to this, she was afraid of what her mother will say when she would meet Rich. According to Waverly, she and Rich shared a “pure love”, which she was afraid her mother would poison. Waverly planned to go to Auntie Suyuan’s house with Rich for dinner, knowing that her mother would then invite the two over for dinner to her house, and this would give her mother a chance to get to know and warm up to Rich. However, when they went for dinner, Rich did everything incorrectly- he didn’t understand Chinese customs and made several mistakes that were seen as

Culture defines humanity. Culture makes humans different than any other living organism ever known. Culture is what makes humans unique, and yet culture is easily the most misunderstood characteristic of individuals. In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan develops the theme of incomplete cultural understanding leads to an inability to communicate one’s true intentions through juxtaposition and conflict between mothers and daughters and their cultures.

In The Great Gatsby, a prominent underlying theme is self transformation, or the reinventing of oneself. Throughout the book Gatsby is not what he says he is. He made up his whole life story in order to impress a girl he falls in love with before he is sent off to war. Jay Gatsby sets out to completely reinvent himself in every way, starting with his name. Growing up in the midwest, he was James Gatz, son of poor a poor farmer. In the text, the characters that

Through my understanding of the book, Homeward Bound by Elaine Tyler May explores two traditional depictions of the 1950s, namely suburban domesticity and anticommunism. She intertwines both historical events into a captivating argument. Throughout the book, May aims to discover why “Post-war Americans accepted parenting as well as marriage with so much zeal” unlike their own parents and children. Her findings are that the “cold war ideology and domestic revival” were somewhat linked together. She saw “domestic containment” as an outgrowth of frights and desires that bloomed after the war. However, psychotherapeutic services were as much a boom then as now, and helped offer “private and personal solutions to social problems.” May reflects her views on the origin of domestic containment, and how it affected the lives of people who tried to live by it.

Jay Gatsby, the title character of The Great Gatsby, is really not all that the title might suggest. First of all, his real name is James Gatz. He changed it in an effort to leave behind his old life as a poor boy and create an entirely new identity. He is also a liar and a criminal, having accumulated his wealth and position by dishonest means. But he is still called ‘great,’ and in a sense he is. Gatsby is made great by his unfaltering hope, and his determination to live in a perfect world with Daisy and their perfect love. Gatsby has many visible flaws—his obvious lies, his mysterious way of avoiding straight answers. But they are shadowed over by his gentle smile and his visible hunger for an ideal future. The coarse and playful Jay

In Allison Bechdel's graphic memoir Fun Home, she uses a moment-to-moment transition to show the transition of her father asking her a personal, disturbing question to her response and reaction to the question. These two panels require little closure compared to other panels that Bechdel includes in her memoir, which is evident because of the small time gap between the question and the answer. While the transition between the two panels requires little closure with the scene itself, there is a lot of room for interpretation involving Allision's thoughts and reaction to her father's question. The scene itself is pretty obvious with what is happening with Allison and her father.

The graphic novel, Fun Home written by Allison Bechdel, is the graphic memoir of Allison’s early life. More specifically, Bechdel coming to terms with her homosexuality as her funeral-director father remains closeted. Fun Home has been chosen best book of the year by many well-known magazines and newspapers such as USA today. New York, calls it, “one of the best memoirs of the decade... At once hyper controlled and utterly intimate.” Along with being best book of the year, Fun Home has been turned into a Broadway musical which has recently won five awards at the twenty fifteen Tony awards including Best musical. Despite its praise and success, the pioneering work of Allison Bechdel is met with resistance. Many are seeking the removal of the book’s usage in academic curriculum, particularly at the college level. In October

Part graphic memoir and part psychoanalytical study, Alison Bechdel’s, Fun Home, is a charming story about a girl’s search for identity within an unconventional family. The novel style autobiography frames Alison’s childhood and adolescence as she struggles with themes of sexual confusion, gender identity, and convoluted family dynamics. These ideas are explored through the examination of Alison’s relationship with her father, and their shared passion for literature.

First off, Jay Gatsby comes off as a nice man who throws huge, florid parties and lets everyone come over even if he doesn’t know who they are. He seems mysterious, reticent, and rather elegant but know one knows who he once was. Gatsby was in the war as everyone knew, but no one knew his secret love. He didn’t get rich in a correct way but more so a corrupt way. He sold fake bonds and was a bootlegger and did it all for one girl. The light at the end of her dock was glowing green brightly and he would stare at it from his, reaching for

“I suppose he’d had the name ready for a long time, even then. His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people – his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God – a phrase which if it means anything, means just that – and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of

F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the finest American authors of the twentieth century wrote The Great Gatsby during the Jazz Age to critique the distortion of the American dream, and his work has lasted long past his lifetime. Fitzgerald discusses the nature of love and wealth and stresses the importance of defining a person beyond their external position. In his novel, letter to his daughter, and the screenplay adapted from the novel, it is clear that F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes exposition, narration, and imagery to illustrate how people in the 1920s did not understand the meaning of true love and worried about superficial characteristics, thus resulting in the corruption of the American dream from the pursuit of true love and equality to the pursuit of wealth and discrimination; however, he moralizes that human beings are capable of emotional growth and of escaping the illusion of wealth.

Around the world many people hold the same dream hoping for fortune, freedom, and fascination. The same people get these ideas through the entertainment business, which is all conveyed through Hollywood. From Hollywood to California to America, the concept of the “American Dream” has been constructed for hopeful people living in or outside of the United States. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatbsy, star-crossed lovers: Daisy Buchanan and Jay Gatsby are ex lovers torn apart because of their difference in character and devotion. Daisy throughout the novel is flirty and shallow while dealing with her abusive rich husband, Tom Buchanan. Gatsby never stopped loving Daisy after they had to break up because he could not fulfill her life with riches, nor continue to hold up her rich reputation. After she left him, he inherited money and began to work very hard, through illegal means, to improve his life for himself and for Daisy. She became Gatsby’s American Dream. Fitzgerald has created a romance novel that criticizes the pursuit of such dreams through the use of symbolism and characterization.

Bruce, however, used literature to escape from reality. Bruce compares himself to his favorite author and characters who he shares pain and secrecy with. For example, Bruce and Jay Gatsby both want to be someone they are not and live in fictional worlds built on lies. Jay and Bruce use materialistic objects to make their lives look perfect. When Alison says she, “grew to hate the way my father treated furniture like children, and his children like furniture” (14), it shows how her father used objects to cover up his dysfunctional