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She would always remember her father as being a good man who had loved her, she could find nothing bad to say about the man who had beaten and abused her. Soon after her father began molesting her, Carol began running naked through the streets at night. By the time she was fifteen, she had learned the power of sex and the appeal of her large breasts. Through promiscuity, with high school boys and the school bus driver, although not sexually satisfying to herself, Carol found she could get the attention she craved, if only for a
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
Fun Home is a graphic novel containing both comedy and tragedy portraying the childhood of the author, Alison Bechdel. Each panel and detail in her book was carefully drawn out and created with precision. Every emotion expressed, color used, and word said was drawn in for a reason Bechdel had in mind. Making everything in her graphic novel intertwine with one another, colors match with characters and emotions mixed in with the setting. If any part were to be altered or removed, several panels would not convey the same sentiment, therefore affecting a whole chapter and consequently, the tragicomedy itself.
In the short story, "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, two sisters named Maggie and Dee are raised in a shack house, yet only one of the sisters values their humble beginnings. The eldest sister, Dee, is pretentious, Materialistic, and has no respect for her family. For example, Dee says, '"Maggie can 't appreciate these quilts!" she said. "She 'd probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use." '
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A lesbian is a woman- indentified woman and Adrienne Rich calls it ‘Lesbian continuum’ she explains lesbian continuum is “Include is a range through each woman’s life and throughout history of woman indentified experience no simply the fact that a woman has had consciously desired genital sexual experience with another woman (25)”. Rich argues to embrace many more forms of primary intensity between and among women including the sharing of a rich inner life. Their Eyes were watching God is overwhelmingly centered on Janie’s relationship with Tea Cake. Whereas certain critics recognize the female search for self and need for community as key issues in the novel, most still give priority to heterosexual love and experience as the sole informers of Janie’s existence.
Alison’s father, Bruce Bechdel, conceals his sexual identity to the extent that it becomes “simultaneously hidden and reveal[ing]” from his children until they ultimately discover it on their own (101). This form of dishonesty not only destroys the relationship between Alison and Bruce, but it also sparks a sense of sexual curiosity in her. The discovery of Bruce’s sexual identification ignites Alison’s interest in the duplicate gender, which later leads to a switch from heterosexuality to homosexuality. An additional crushing disappointment toward the construction of an ethical code remains to be the enforcement of female fashion forced upon Alison by Bruce throughout her adolescent years. This act of abusive power brings Alison to consider the inequality in her family’s hierarchy; thereby initiating the lack of positive attributes to build an ethical code between the family members.
Throughout this novel, Bruce appeared to want to live through his daughter’s life. For instance, Alison and Bruce’s life have always been about femininity versus masculinity, “It was a war of cross-purposes” (Bechdel 98). As Bruce was trying to expose his feminine side by using Alison as a proxy, Alison was trying to make up for the lack of masculinity her father showed. She noticed that her father’s taste are much more effeminate than her own. Thus, ties back to his obsession of beautifying the house.
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