Fun Home:
A Family Tragicomic
The
text “Fun Home - A family Tragicomic”, written by Alison Bechdel, is definitely
a crucial proof that shows that a big work of literature is possible to see it
captured in different kind of texts, even comics. This text, specially, allows conceiving
several aspects that are pretty common in the real life; and during the first
two chapters it is developed very curious items that make this work even more striking,
such as: death, suicide, sexual orientation, family life, and father’s role
inside the family.
Focusing
on father’s role inside the family, it has been a very complex job that demands
certain attitudes that grade a father as a bad one or a good one. In the book, page
22, Alison noticeably shows her estimation about her father’s role making
inquiry if he was a good father; and it is very likely to believe that her
answered was based on either the sexual orientation of him or the exaggerated
behaviors towards them and his obsessions regarding cleanness and home’s
ornamentation. However, these same behaviors lead me to reflect, since a
personal way, whether he really was a bad father, because: does someone have to
be a heterosexual man to be a good father? Surely, his relationships with
teenagers were not justifiable; but my point is that even heterosexual people
have their own mistakes, imperfections and weaknesses. It is just our duty as simple
“human beings” that we are, to search our best version of ourselves and to minimize
our evil or sinful part.
Anlly Gabriela Osorio Sánchez
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