Analysis Paper The struggle of sexuality contributes to the motivations and behaviors of many of the characters in Fun Home written by Alison Bechdel. The piece is a memoir, but Bechdel refers to it as a family tragicomic. The work can be categorized in many multiple ways, but one clear way to define it is uncertainty. This quality is not unfamiliar to many; uncertainty is a constant in life. We all engage in the eternal search for true self, and the struggle of accepting what your true self is if a person ever does truly find it. People begin to accept what they have perceived to be their norm, and never seek to further themselves; they believe themselves to be trapped. In societies ideals this leads to much of the frustration,
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Bechdel relies on allusion, and select choice of words to allow the reader a greater understanding of who he was. He was a clearly a dominant, controlling, insecure man with questionable character shown in many different scenes of the memoir. For instance, in one picture Bechdel paints the father as a dominant personality. He was constantly walking all over her mother. Conducting an egregious amount of affairs, many times with some of his students. Bechdel shows a clear visual demonstration of her mother's unhappiness when she shows the two picture of her passport, before and after her father (Bechdel 71-72) from all the emotional damage she had to endure as his wife. Contrary to this depiction at the closing of the book, Bruce was there holding his hands open to catching Alison, and she states, “He was there to catch me when I leapt.” (Bechdel 232). The reader is presented with two very different pictures of Bruce. In one, the father that is trying in his own way to help guide the daughter through her turmoils with sexuality and life. In the other, the domineering, unyielding, uncaring, selfish man he could also be. This leaves the reader with a hard search to find who is the true Bruce. Though like many people in life, there is no clear cut definition of who they are, there are only gray
Bechdel relies on allusion, and select choice of words to allow the reader a greater understanding of who he was. He was a clearly a dominant, controlling, insecure man with questionable character shown in many different scenes of the memoir. For instance, in one picture Bechdel paints the father as a dominant personality. He was constantly walking all over her mother. Conducting an egregious amount of affairs, many times with some of his students. Bechdel shows a clear visual demonstration of her mother's unhappiness when she shows the two picture of her passport, before and after her father (Bechdel 71-72) from all the emotional damage she had to endure as his wife. Contrary to this depiction at the closing of the book, Bruce was there holding his hands open to catching Alison, and she states, “He was there to catch me when I leapt.” (Bechdel 232). The reader is presented with two very different pictures of Bruce. In one, the father that is trying in his own way to help guide the daughter through her turmoils with sexuality and life. In the other, the domineering, unyielding, uncaring, selfish man he could also be. This leaves the reader with a hard search to find who is the true Bruce. Though like many people in life, there is no clear cut definition of who they are, there are only gray