The word “Father” according to Webster’s Dictionary online is defined as a man in relation to his natural child or children and yet, that definition is debatable because having a father that isn't involved with their children is common in homes. In the tragicomic Fun Home, written and illustrated by Allison Bechdel is an autobiography about her father Bruce Allen Bechdel and the series of events her family faced because of him. Flashback and memory reference are a key factor, she uses to show the readers how these times affected her life through out living with Bruce. Allison faces dramatic events while she is at a young age, leaving her with confused feelings about herself like gender identity, death, and she finds it hard to understand the relationship between herself and her father’s unusual behavior. Bechdel opens the book with her young childhood and the Victorian home she lives in…show more content… He dies by getting hit by truck while crossing the street from working on an old farm home that he was in the process of restoring. The death is believed to be by accident but she sees changes in his life within the last four months before his death, including the fact that she came out as a lesbian and his wife Helen filed a divorce with him. Allison has grown up with death constantly surrounding her like when she was a child working at the funeral home with Bruce. Bechdel underlines the way that she has dependably had a sudden response to death and she is apathetic after seeing her first dead body in the “fun home” and can just feel aggravation in the wake of Bruce's passing. Spending large amounts of time at the family funeral home was another attribute to her strange reaction for dealing with death and theorizes that her initial capacity to smother dread even with death prompted her absence of feeling after catching wind of her dad's demise years after the
