Reading “Fun Home” is a completely different experience then reading other novels. Alison Bechdel took her child hood and brought it to life. The father is very particular in the first chapter before he commits “suicide”. This family had deep hidden secrets that the father tried to mask by doing different projects around the house. The father tried so hard to make everything look so perfect just to hide the fact that everything wasn’t even close to perfect. I also think that the father worked so hard to make his house and family the way he wanted that he was trying to hide a secret from himself one that not even he wanted to believe or think about. After the funeral some of the fathers secrets started coming out. I believe the father was very unhappy when he had to move home because his own father died of a heart attack. I think that Bechdel’s father was forced into a life he did not want to be in. He became a teacher and worked part time at the funeral parlor. I think that the father was happy overseas in Europe in the army and I believe that he moved home to honor is father and he made the best out of a bad situation and that wasn’t the life he wanted but it was the life he had to live.
The name “fun home” is very ironic for the funeral parlor because it is just the opposite of that. In the “fun home” the children were surrounded by caskets and death the father even dressed the dead up for their funeral. I do not understand why it is called fun home. The only fun thing about going to the funeral home was when the children were about to go to bed the grandmother would tell stories about their dad when he was a child.
After the father’s death the children were not upset. The family all though that the father commited suicide and no one seemed to care or was upset by this. Bechdel sounded like she had a bad childhood and her father wasn’t the best but she still talks about him highly in some instances which makes me think that they had secret bond that we don’t know about yet.
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