Fun Home

Fun Home Throughout our lives, we are all living in a society that fills with social expectations of gender. We response to these expectations at our early age. For example, noticing Barbies are for girls while robots and cars are for boys only. In the “Performative Gender”, “Doing Gender”, and “Nerd Box”, authors all indicate gender is learned instead of inherited. They bring out their insightful observation and critical personal experience to illustrate how the social expectations with…

The Child of Fun Home Put simply, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home is an autobiographical graphic novel about what it means to reject “the Child”: the unwilling heir to family and society that we project our future onto. To continue the legacy of the Child is to turn the eternal wheel of heteronormative succession, a subservient maintenance of a status quo embedded deep within society. Diametrically opposed to “the Child” then is queerness, the simple act of refusing the reproductive and reductive…

grouping, the nuclear family structure does not have these powerful bonds, it leads to estrangement in its members, and can lead to the collapse of the family unit. However, these bonds are pliable, and are constantly reshaped by social interactions. In Fun Home, water imagery depicting interactions between Alison and her father Bruce is used to increase emotional proximity, whereas water imagery depicting interactions…

In Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home,” time is manipulated by using past elements as reminders to previous events in the storyline. Although it isn’t outright stated in page 134, we know Bruce and Helena Bechdel focused more of their time perfecting their craft rather than doing “basic parenting duties,” such as making lunch for the kids or creating an emotional bond. Page 134 illustrates Alison explain how the Bechdel family’s artistry lead to isolation amongst them. The panels on this page depict a…

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…

Fun Home Society believes that togetherness is a trait in the ideal happy family. In Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel, people from the outside looking in assumed that Alison’s family is the perfect example of a happy family. In this assumption, you can compare it to “the perfectly clear stream”. Alison’s father was a hard working man who kept a deep secret to himself that led to his death. Alison’s mother drown herself in her work in order to escape the degree of damage she was suffering from.…

In Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Bechdel creates a bildungsroman to share her journey of grappling with reality. Throughout the graphic novel, Alison shares that she sees a disjuncture between her family's seemingly perfect outward appearance and what she interprets as the real appearance of her family. Alison struggles to clearly define what makes this disjuncture so apparent until she comes out as a lesbian during college and comes to identify that her father is a bisexual…

members. Somehow, no matter how hard it is to deny it, everyone depends on their family for support, confidence or love. We need them, even if we think we are independent the family is undeniable. Through the novels, Beloved, The Age of Innocence and Fun Home, various characters in their stories emphasize a relationship with their parents as they attempt to justify their parents actions for loving them. Denver wants to love Sethe without fearing her, yet it seems impossible for someone to…

think about, correct? Ordinarily, we all grew up being taught by our own parents in different ways, but Alison Bechdel’s relationship with her family is beyond astonishing. As we will further discuss about the family consequences in the tragicomic, Fun Home, you will soon recognize Bechdel’s contradictory emotions for her parents. Bechdel’s childhood is entangled with her father spending most of his time decorating the house, trying to pursue his passion. On the other hand, her mother is…

In psychology, the debate of whether 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…