In James Baldwin's novel Giovanni's Room the main character David depicts the room he occupies with Giovanni as personal prison created out of internal punishment by Giovanni. During the time David spends living with Giovanni, he consistently denied any real affection for him mentally. For David, the room can be seen as a metaphorical closet. Such as and protection from persecution and the reality of his bisexuality. When this novel was written the construct of being Bisexual was not quite understood. in efforts to make himself miserable and not attempt to repair problems or leave David continuously complains and compares Giovanni's room dreadful places,“I remember that life in that room seemed to be occurring beneath the sea.” (Baldwin …show more content…
At the beginning of the graphic novel, Allison shows her father's obsession with keeping the house looking expensive without having to spend the money. “These were not so much but as produced from a thin air by my father's remarkable legerdemain.” (Bechdel 5). She onto explaining,“her father could spin garbage into gold.” (Bechdel 6). The obsession with the house alludes to Bruce's facade to the world. The house is the only permanent control of depicting how he wants his world to be. Bruce was a master of manipulating the eye into seeing something that looked a certain way even if it was something completely different. It is Bruce’s closet to take safety and comfort in. Compared to Giovanni’s and David’s where it is dirty and chaotic. Later in the book, Alison goes through photographs of her father that were hidden away one of them she found she first believed to be a prank for Fraternity but after looking at it intensively it could elude that he had once Express himself in the way he truly wanted to which was more feminine. In which he has decided to cover over and forget