Bechdel's Literary Analysis

Bechdel choose to start her memoir in this fashion because it thoroughly explains how she utilizes writing as an escape her reoccurring thoughts. Some may think that writing can only be used to educate or entertain people, Writing can also be used to solidify uncertain feeling or emotions by logging events from external life and internal life and evaluating one’s mental state by tracking “changes [and] trac[ing] moods developing” (Frame 3, 89). A student, Katelyn Gemmel concurs “that writing is [a] source for inner discover and area in which an individual can gain a full understanding of how they became to be the person whom they are today.” Bechdel has not taken to writing the memoir for her own enjoyment but to help her understand her thoughts, desires and feelings …show more content…
Bechdel sees the escape from the basement through and jumps into a brook outside the door; suggesting that she utilizes writing as a way to escape her mother and the thoughts about her mother and jumps in the writing of her in hopes to have the obsessive thoughts subside. Bechdel is “struggling for four years with” (Frame 2, 83) the reoccurring thoughts of her mother and the inability to transcribe them in a way that is “concise, entertaining, and apposite” (Frame 5, 86). She often finds herself having to “rewrite [her] book” (Frame 1, 87) but after speaking with her mother and receiving “mixed blessings” (Frame 3, 88) from her, Bechdel feels that she is “better equipped” (Frame 3, 88) to write about her mother. Bechdel has a similar dream after receiving the blessing from her mother and in the new dream, she is better prepared; Bechdel has a scuba suit and goggles and can see she can get to freedom on the other side of the