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Who was Bruce Bechdel? What is his role in Alison Bechdel’s book Fun Home<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruce Bechdel was the father of Alison Bechdel. The two had a difficult relationship due in part to her father’s tumultuous nature and repressed sexuality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about Bruce Bechdel and his relationship with daughter Alison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Bruce Bechdel: Alison Bechdel’s Father<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Alison\u2019s father was likely a closeted homosexual or bisexual man.<\/strong> Though he never directly expressed his sexuality to his family, Alison recognized a few behaviors that showed her father\u2019s more feminine side throughout her childhood (such as his use of a bronzing stick). She implies that her father\u2019s repression was a source of self-loathing and misplaced anger.<\/strong> She compares her father\u2019s desire to create the image of a perfect home despite its disrepair to his desire to create the image of the perfect man despite his inner struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruce Bechdel was sensitive to failure and disorder.<\/strong> He punished his children at any sign of imperfection, even if they hadn\u2019t done anything wrong. For example, he once asked the family why a vase had gotten so close to the edge of the table. No one responded, so he proceeded to grab and spank Alison as she cried that she hadn\u2019t done anything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was not only sensitive to the perceived failures of his children, but he was also sensitive to his own. <\/strong>For example, one of Alison\u2019s brothers once commented on the peace signs on their father\u2019s tie. It was not a critique, just an observation. Despite the fact that he was running late, Alison\u2019s father immediately ran up to his room and changed ties. After this incident, their mother told them that they were no longer allowed to make comments on their father\u2019s appearance, even if their comments weren\u2019t critical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though he had his moments of kindness, these actually made the tension in the house worse. <\/strong>The children never knew what version of their father they were going to get, so they had to navigate every interaction with their father with finesse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opposites<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Alison and Bruch Bechdel were polar opposites of one another. <\/strong>Throughout her childhood, this led to constant tension and disagreement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Where her Bruce Bechdel loved extravagance, Alison loved functionality.<\/strong> Her father wanted opulent, period-specific decor. Alison wanted to live in an all-metal, submarine inspired room. When attending a wedding, Alison\u2019s father wore a luxurious velvet suit. Conversely, Alison wanted to wear sneakers.<\/li>
  • Where her father was more feminine, Alison was more masculine. <\/strong>Her father loved dressing Alison up in girly clothing and wearing makeup. Alison didn\u2019t care about clothing and wore her hair short. She calls herself the \u201cButch\u201d to her father\u2019s \u201cSissy.\u201d<\/li>
  • Where her father craved isolation, Alison craved interaction. <\/strong>Alison adored her and her father\u2019s occasional game of airplane. It gave her the physical contact that she craved, but very rarely received from him.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
    Alison\u2019s Father and the Police<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

    Alison\u2019s father had a run-in with the police after an incident with an underage boy. <\/strong>Her father picked up a 17-year old and told him that his brother had gone missing. The boy got in the car and they went looking for his brother. During their search, her father purchased a six-pack of beer and offered the boy a drink. Alison\u2019s father was sent a summons and was charged with giving alcohol to a minor. Though Alison never knew the nature of her father\u2019s relationship with the boys, she later inferred that it was sexual.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    While in court, the magistrate focused solely on the alcohol charge and never brought up the nature of Alison\u2019s father\u2019s relationship with the two boys. The judge agreed to dismiss the charges if he agreed to 6 months of counseling. Alison implies that the nature of the sentencing had little to do with the liquor charge and more to do with the unspoken accusation: a homosexual act with a minor.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Bruce Bechdel’s Death<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Alison Bechdel\u2019s father died after he was hit by a truck while clearing brush from a home he was planning to renovate. <\/strong>The truck driver stated that Alison\u2019s father jumped backward into the road as if he had seen a wild animal. Alison doesn\u2019t know for sure, but she believes that his death was a suicide.<\/strong> She points to the facts that Alison\u2019s mother had just filed for divorce and that her father had been reading literature that implied that life was meaningless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Though Alison and her mother believed his death was deliberate, Alison mentioned later that perhaps her family chose to believe that because, to them, it was less painful. It gave her father agency over his own death. <\/strong>He chose when he wanted to die and went through with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    She struggled to comprehend her father\u2019s passing<\/strong>. She spent her childhood watching her father prepare bodies for funerals. When it was time for his, she asked herself, \u201cWho prepares the body of the man who prepares the bodies?\u201d At Bruce Bechdel’s funeral, she and her brothers showed little emotion. In fact, the only moments where she felt consolation was in violently brushing off someone\u2019s hand who was trying to support her. This was likely because the action elicited an emotion from her during a time that she was mostly feeling numb.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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