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Allusions In Fun Home

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In Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel, Fun Home, the author analyzes her relationship with her father and their antiparallel journeys as LGBTQ individuals, specifically through allusions to literary pieces, whose underlying themes intertwine with Bechdel’s personal story. Perhaps the most effective, relevant, and most recognizable series of allusions comes at the end of the novel when Bechdel discusses her college course on James Joyce’s Ulysses and its connections to the Odyssey by Homer. When discussing her Hobson’s choice, to take the college course or to take nothing at all, Bechdel begins with a reference to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, telling Telemachus to search for his father, Odysseus. This allusion to Homer’s epic poem parallels Bechdel’s
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