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Analyzing Themes In Alison Bechdel's Fun Home

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Fun Home by the American writer Alison Bechdel carried the themes of emotional abuse, sexual orientation, gender roles, suicide and the role of literature in understanding one’s family role. The tone and mode of Fun Home mainly describes it as a Tragi-Comic. At a young age, Alison always feels like she wants to dress like a boy, but later she discovers that she is lesbian and have more emotional attraction with women. She was shocked to knew that her father was engaged in sexual relationship with gardener and babysitter. The Fun Home started with a scene of the author herself as a young girl playing with her father. I believed that author used this childhood game to set up a recurring relationship of her with her father in novel Fun Home. Author
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