By revealing this upsetting information early on, Alison creates a cogent page turner that hastily grips her readers in its powerful clutches and refuses to let go. So now the reader knows that Alison’s father was a confined marriage man that had sex with …show more content…
She skirts around prominent events like her father’s copious affairs with boys and the details of his abrupt mortality. This assists in adding layers of realism to her story in the way that a human’s memory works. In reality, our brains don’t just focus on one event from our past and move on. Somehow, we fasten various situations and/or relationships multiple times that act as a centerpiece to a relatable theme that we once experienced. In Fun Home, the overall reoccurring presence of these climatic moments gives Bechdel’s graphic novel a lot of depth that lifts her story to the status of a great