Alison Bechdel

Alison Bechdel uses her graphic memoir, Fun home, to explore her relationship with her father. She uses the book as a tool to reflect on her life and the affect her father had on her. She discovers how her fathers closeted sexuality affected her childhood and her transition into adulthood. His death left a powerful mark and left her searching for answers. She clearly states this when she says, “it’s true that he didn’t kill himself until I was nearly twenty. But his absence resonated retroactively

Fun Home a memoir by Alison Bechdel that gives us an in-depth look at her family and her parents, through her eyes as a child and young adult struggling with her sexual identity. Alison’s relationship with her parents, Bruce and Helen, is not a close one and often she struggles to connect with them, and particularly her father whose behavior can be erratic and violent at times. Early in Alison’s memoir we learn that Bruce dies in a tragic accident after Alison and her mother make announcements

By doing so, Bechdel has linked her father to Mr. Toad, whom she calls a “charming sociopath” (Bechdel 130). This link between Mr. Toad and Bruce Bechdel is significant in that Wind in the Willows map that follows because of the connection it renders. New meaning is found in the map as Alison draws parallels between the maps of both her home landscape and the setting of the children's novels. The image

Alison Bechdel is a cartoonist responsible for the 25-year-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, her two widely acclaimed graphic novels, and the origination for the internationally-known Bechdel Test. In addition to this, she has my boundless love and admiration. Fun Home, her graphic memoir she proclaimed as “a family tragicomic,” spent two weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, was named Time Magazine’s number one book of the year 2006, and was recently adapted into a Broadway musical

I believe that Alison Bechdel used this book as a platform to highlight the various challenges and issues that some homosexual individuals among others in the LGBTQ community face. She wanted to allow to the audience to empathise with this community in a different light. In some cases, when people don’t understand the unfamiliar, the tend to fear it. So, with this book, people from a variety of backgrounds might have discussed the underlying issues in the LGBTQ community using her book. With this

In her graphic memoir Fun Home, Alison Bechdel records her unusual relationship with her late father Bruce Bechdel and reveals her family secrets. Through Chapter Three she speculates about the reason of her father’s death after first knowing the catastrophe. By applying the allusion between writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald’s famous character Jay Gatsby, and her father, Bechdel effectively presents the tragic nature of her father that he lives in the fictional world created by himself

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. Early on in her childhood, Alison came to the realization

In Alison Bechdel 's Fun Home, there is a focus on a sculpted perception of gender roles produced by society and a great emphasis on how Bruce and Alison challenge these strict gender specific characteristics. Through Bruce’s femininity and Alison’s masculinity along with their homosexuality, they are able to go against the norms and the collection of rules set by society. It is also through their struggle with gender roles that one is able to understand their sexual orientation. Although Bruce and

Alison Bechdel’s memoir, Fun Home, is a compelling narrative in which Bechdel takes the reader through her life and gives insight into her relationship and the complex lifestyle her closeted homosexual father, Bruce Bechdel. However, her serious topic is told through the narrative of comics, images that literally put the readers into the moments of her life with her. Even though, the graphic images provide visual insight, Bechdel makes a conscious decision to include a multitude of literary allusions

In the novel, Fun Home, Alison Bechdel explores the Franciscan value of respecting the unique dignity of each person. Throughout the book, Bechdel’s father often challenges this value in his behavior with Alison. From a child development standpoint, these actions complicate the development of Bechdel’s identity. Fun Home follows Alison Bechdel’s childhood, showing both a prominent father-daughter relationship and Bechdel’s developing identity. Following the potential suicide of her father, the author