Alison Bechdel

). The brevity of this moment is depicted by the small, same-size panels that show Bruce and young-adult-Alison in almost the exact same position in each panel, giving off the feeling that the two pages filled with these panels only describe a second or two because nothing much changes. This is a reference to how young adult Bechdel felt about the conversation her and her father were having. She had hoped for an open conversation that would form a bond between them over their experienced…

nature or nurture has a bigger impact on a child’s life has been an on-going argument for many years. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel is a graphic memoir about the death of her father and her coming of age. This novel takes the reader through events in her life that may seem insignificant but reveal to have had an impression on her life. By exploring her childhood memories in hindsight, Bechdel questions gender roles, contrasts her and her father’s acceptance of sexual orientation, and gives insight…

of the graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel, was able to capture and represent a father’s internal struggle of identity between the expected society's gender roles and perspectives versus his very own.Within this graphic novel, Alison Bechdel’s father goes through a long struggle with the identity he wants to present on the inside and the identity that society believes he should uphold on the outside. His daughter Alison goes through a similar process of the struggle with…

his children, but I felt he wanted to be closer to Alison. I felt like this because as the reader I could clearly tell he would buy her pretty dresses or jewelry that he would have liked. Bruce portrayed that he would have liked to be a woman perhaps this was a way he could buy what he wanted without being judged for it, and see Alison in a sense as himself. As I read through the book I felt Bruce was always trying to live vicariously through Alison. When she found the picture of her father…

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…

Mr. Bechdel is a man that is removed from the world of his family and overly obsessed with his home. According to Alison he never showed much love toward his children. He was too busy constantly working on his fixer-upper of a home. He frequently used his children to help him with the house or as Alison quotes “My brother and I were free labor. Dad considered us extensions of his own body.” This obsession with their home is brought to the reader’s attention as early as the second page when…

The encounter of Alison and the truck driver cracked Alison’s perception of gender norms and her social construct of gender. She was exposed to something that was foreign and strange to her, she was overjoyed that there was someone like her in the world, and she wasn’t alone anymore. This encounter also resonated with Alison’s father but instead of awe, he was fearful, which is seen when Alison says, “But the vision of the truck-driving bulldyke sustained me through the years… as perhaps it…

reality, while Alison uses fiction as a way to understand her reality. Helen uses fiction as a way to escape reality. The particular form of fiction that Helen uses are her plays. She is deeply committed to becoming the character she is portraying. While this…

Deep Into Who, And What, And Why, And When Fun Home at the Circle in the Square Theater A few keys on a keychain. Not much to the average person, but to Alison Bechdel those keys opened up a whole new door she never knew existed. Broadway's new musical and Tony winner for Best Musical Fun Home is a remarkable story through Alison's Bechdels life. It tells the story through three stages of her life, but never going in chronological order. It focuses on the two main struggles in her life…

Bechdel opened up her story showing the readers how close her relationship is with her father. Bruce was doing the “airplane” game with Alison. However, she falls down soon after (Bechdel 3). She used the Greek mythology of Daedalus and Icarus to suggest that perhaps it isn't only the child who can take Icarus’ position: "In our particular reenactment of this mythic relationship, it was not me but my father who was to plummet from the sky" (Bechdel 4). Daedalus was the master of craftsman. He…