This past week our class had a discussion over Fun Home, a graphic novel, written by Allison Bechdel. A topic that my class briefly talked about throughout this discussion was the title of the novel and its physical meaning. The title of this novel is Fun Home. In reality, this title was sarcastic and had a deeper meaning toward it. When I think of a fun home I think of the fairs or haunted houses people visit with the distorted mirrors and scary characters inside, such as clowns. A comparison to these fun houses is the family itself in Fun Home. If you look beyond the words and read them in depth and analyze the pictures, this family is a wreck. In this novel the daughter states, “that [the] family was a sham.” This proves that this family
