Essays on Fun Home

Coming out of the closest or even being a closeted person can affect a person’s mental health and personal relationships as well. Alison Bechdel’s, Fun Home shows an example of how one’s sexual orientation can affect their life. In Fun Home, Alison Bechdel’s sexuality is being suppressed by her father, Bruce Bechdel for more reasons than one. Growing up in this time period it was criminalized to be have a same sex sexuality and this is why Bruce has a…...

Alison Bechdel’s, Fun Home shows an example of how one’s sexual orientation can affect their relationships with their families. In Fun Home, Alison Bechdel’s sexuality is being suppressed by her father, Bruce Bechdel for more reasons than one. Growing up in this time period it was criminalized to be have a same sex sexuality and this is why Bruce has a desire for Alison to be like a typical girl, not only because that is what is normal during this…...

Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic" is an exciting autobiography with comics that bring her story to life. Alison Bechdel wrote this book about her childhood, the relationship she had with her father and one of the many things they shared in common, their sexuality. In addition to their common homosexuality, Alison and Bruce Bechdel share o b sessive compulsive tendencies and their artistic ways, even using her artistic language to describe the father daughter relationship they had, "I…...