Bechdel creates a plot which presents her father and herself as parallel and diverging stories. 100), by Alison Bechdel, 2006, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.īechdel entwines their two stories into one plot by considering how her father made these decisions and lived his life. 2 – Alison finding out that Roy was her father’s lover. 113), by Alison Bechdel, 2006, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.įig. 1 – Alison telling her brothers to call her Albert on vacation. Such events include her memorable camping trip, which is memorable because of her uncomfortable experience with gender expression and is made more notable when she learns that their babysitter who accompanied them on vacation, Roy, was her father’s lover.įig. However, all of these events are meaningful and impactful to the memoir and Bechdel’s life, because she retroactively examines these events through the lens of knowledge that her father was a queer man. There are interesting and noteworthy developments and settings which make Fun Home about Bechdel’s unorthodox upbringing the title Fun Home both referring to the Bechdel family funeral home and the Gothic revival house in which she grew up. Although Fun Home is ostensibly a memoir about Alison Bechdel, her coming out, and the unexpected death of her father at a young age, the memoir is largely about Bechdel processing her father’s queerness and possibly resulting suicide.
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