Analysis Of Fun Home By Alison Brchdel

In today’s society people often judge other people by their appearance. Such as how they act, the way they talk and how they dress. But sometimes the appearance can be fake and blinds our eyes and also misleading us from the reality. The book Fun Home by Alison Brchdel which is a memoir and the article call “Never judge a book by its cover?’: students’ understandings of lesbian, gay and bisexual appearance” by Nikki Hayfield can prove that appearance cannot represent all. Fun Home by Alison Brchdel is mainly focus on a daughter and her father’s complicated relationship and how she growing up in a dysfunctional family and also how she coming out as a lesbian. And both father and daughter are homosexual. In the book others may think they live in a very big house, so they must be happy and rich as Bechdel states “When other children called our house a mansion, I would demur” (5). But this is not the truth, the family is not rich at all and they are different from other family. Bechdel tells “Our home was like an artists’ colony. We ate together, but otherwise were absorbed in our separate pursuits” (134). So they appear to …show more content…
However from picture and description we can see that living in funeral home is not that terrible and it just like normal home. Kids are playing and having fun in there as Bechdel claims “My brothers and I had lots of chores at the fun home, but also many interesting opportunities for play” (37). So it is very different from the display. The article “Never judge a book by its cover?’: students’ understandings of lesbian, gay and bisexual appearance” is about a survey that give to 36 university students to see if heterosexual people recognize gay and lesbian by their appearance and there are also stereotypes to sexuality and