Fun Home Theme of Identity
With this graphic memoir, Fun Home , I feel like a central theme to Alison Bechdel’s life was her growing up and discovering her Gender Identity and sexual orientation through coming of age and how that identity differs from society’s expectations. These expectations seem to be enforced by mainly her father figure within her life, her dad Bruce. Alison has over time experienced shame and discomfort in growing up conforming to her female body and identity. When she admires the way a woman wearing male clothing looks, her father’s bitter tone of questioning if she wants to look like that pushes her away and creates a sense of guilt in genuinely feeling like she doesn’t belong in her body. Moreover, her going through puberty only heightens this sense of annoyance she feels as a woman going through the changes women go through. In addition, Alison also finds it shameful when she’s attracted to a picture of a nude female model which only intensifies her father’s projected thinking on her. I...