Fun home. ( late blog )

Fun home is structured around Bechdel's relationship with her father. In the beginning of the book Bechdel talks about her father obsessing about restoring their families home. This shows his emotional distance from his family. The distance also has alot to do with his homosexual tendencies. The book isnt presented in chronological order, but instead significant events are focused on , and looked at from different angles. Her father had a sexual relationship with a man while he was in the military , and he has had them with his high school students, as well as some of their close family friends. He dies when she is 19 years , in what she suspects is a suicide, but after her mother asks for a divorce her father steps out in front of a bread truck and is killed. Bechdel struggles with her own sexuality and shortly before her father is killed she comes out as a lesbian to her parents.