ENGL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Beech Creek, Pennsylvania, Alison Bechdel, Bisexuality
28 Oct 2020
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Fun home: a family tragicomic is a graphic memoir by alison. The memoir starts with alison as a young girl, playing with her father, who she compares to both daedalus, the genius inventor of greek myth, and icarus, Daedulus"s son who flew too close to the sun on wings designed by his father and plummeted to his death. Alison then reveals that bruce killed himself while she was in college, and though he lived through most of her childhood, she and the rest of the family felt his absence long before he was physically gone. Alison gives a brief biography of her father, noting that he was born, lived, died, and was buried all within a two-mile radius in the town of beech creek, pennsylvania. Alison notes that when bruce was in the army during world war ii he got stationed in. There, he courted helen by exchanging letters with her.
