Category: Fun Home

The theme of sexuality and gender identity is apparent throughout the memoir, Fun Home. It introduces two distinctly different coming-to age stories of a father and daughter dealing with their sexuality. The novel highlights moments of struggle each character experiences when they discover that their identities differ from the expectations that are being promoted by…

It is undeniably that clothing and material surface plays an imperative role in the development of understanding ones self since it reinforces gender binaries that ultimately dictate how we interact within the wider world. Undoubtedly, Alison Bechdels premise in her family tragicomic, Fun Home, is to simply understand herself through copious amounts of literature references…

What aspects can define what Popular Literature is? How is control a crucial aspect of Popular Literature? Popular literature is intended for large audiences and requires a certain level of engagement and entertainment. It is accompanied by many different aspects that can help showcase a good understanding of the story. Fun Home: A Tragicomic by…

Fun Home: a Family tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel, deals with the difficulties that a father and daughter face with sexuality/ being gay. Alison Bechdel realizes that Bruce and her are on opposite side of the Kinsey scale regarding their gender preferences. The story pursuit an understanding of how Bruce and Alison differently perceive their sexual…

Endearing in many ways, Alison Bechdels autobiography, Fun Home, shows readers that stories, metaphors, and archetypes can allow us to comprehend a persons troubles. Allisons characters embody transformative aspects where they become ciphers and reflections of people living in the real world. Furthermore, Allisons recollections of a family unit that was physically, intellectually, and emotionally…

The path from ones childhood to their adulthood has never been a narrow, easy path, it is one filled with numerous obstacles that can make it feel like your entire world is collapsing around you, while providing you no way out. This is prevalent in Alison Bechdels, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and Phoebe Gloeckners…

Out of all the mental health struggles that Alison goes through throughout Fun Home, I wish she would have explained her obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) more. She later refers to it as her obsessive-compulsive year, and she is never shown to seek treatment for it through medicine or therapy, so it was not a major part…

Fun Home: a family tragicomic is a graphic memoir written by Alison Bechdel. This graphic memoir is about Bechdels childhood from 8 years old to her early 20s and during the process, she discovered her sexual orientation/own lesbian sexuality, as well as some dark secrets of her father(Bruce). When people first see Fun Home, would…

In the graphic memoir titled Fun Home, by Allison Bechdel, sexual self-discovery is one of the criteria for the development of the main character. Furthermore, Bechdel depicts the plethora of factors that are pivotal in the shaping of who she is before, during and after her sexual self-development. Bechdels anguish and pain begins with all…

The tragicomic Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel, is generally considered one of the most important pieces of the modern LGBTQ canon of literature. The graphic novel tells the story of Alison Bechdels attempt to find the truth about her fathers sexuality and what lead him to possibly commit suicide. Along the way, Bechdel finds her…