Fun Home

Fun Home

  1. How did Bechdel's relationship with her father change as she became an adult and a self-identified lesbian?
  2. Fun Home's narrative is non-linear and moves fluidly between the past and the present, revisiting central incidents over and over again. In what ways does this structure impact the story? How does it impact your reading?
  3. One of the reasons that Fun Home has been challenged is LGBTQ themes. In what ways is this public discomfort with sexual identity similar to the discomfort of the characters in the memoir? How does it differ? Offer up some of your own insights from reading our texts this quarter.
  4. Bechdel and her father connect over literature, and literary references are integral to Fun Home. Identify some of these references. How did Bechdel’s various literary allusions impact her storytelling?
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Bechdel's realtionship with her father changed a great deal, as her coming out led to her mother's revelation that her father was a homosexual. In some ways, the two became closer. Alison comes to understand many things about her father, and her father, in turn, attempts to relate his own experiences to those his daughter now faces. Unfortunately, the two bond..... but not completely, as Alison's father is never able to embrace his sexuality in the same way as his daughter and continues to feel shame for his sexual preferences. In the end, he takes his own life.

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