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What does it mean to be closeted? How is this explored in the book Fun Home<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout most of Fun Home<\/em>, Alison makes it clear that her father was <\/em>a closeted gay or bisexual man. Later, Alison comes out to her family as a lesbian. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about how Alison Bechdel explores what it means to be closeted, through her own experience and through her father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Confessions<\/strong>: Was Alison’s Father Closeted?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When Alison came out to her father, he didn\u2019t seem upset. In fact, he encouraged her to explore while in college but didn\u2019t want her to label herself a \u201clesbian.\u201d<\/strong> In a letter he wrote to her shortly after she came out, her father talked as if she already knew about his sexuality. While he never directly said that he was gay or bisexual, he talked about how he thought about putting a label on his sexuality for years, but never did.<\/strong> He disclosed his envy of the \u201cfreedom\u201d Alison and her contemporaries had to express their sexuality in the 80s, while her father was closeted completely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Alison returned home for the first time after coming out, her mother revealed many of her father\u2019s transgressions. While sharing a bottle of wine, her mother explained the affairs her father had when they spent time in New York. She talked about his out-of-control behaviors such as shoplifting and speeding. She eventually told Alison of her plan to leave her father, a plan that Alison supported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While home from school, Alison and her father went to see a movie. On the car ride to the theater, Alison asked her father if he gave her the Colette book as a way of reaching out about her sexuality. While he claimed that he didn\u2019t, he said that he had his suspicions about her being closeted LGBT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, Alison\u2019s father opened up a little about his experiences with men. He said that his first time was when he was fourteen with a man at the Fun Home. He also said that he used to dress up in girl\u2019s clothing, just like Alison used to dress up in boy\u2019s clothing. Though the conversation didn\u2019t delve any deeper, Alison felt as though they had finally discussed the unspoken bond they shared over their sexuality.<\/strong> They never discussed it again, but Alison suspected he was closeted LGBT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following Alison and her father\u2019s conversation, Alison continued to connect with her father. In fact, the night before he died, a friend of the family remarked that their closeness was unusual. Although her father was like the figure of Icarus, a figure falling from grace because of his recklessness, he was there to catch and support her when she made the leap into her sexuality<\/strong>, though he was still closeted. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Odyssey <\/em>(Homer) and Ulysses <\/em>(Joyce)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Odyssey <\/em>is an epic poem written by Greek poet Homer, who tells the story of Odysseus<\/a> as he overcomes massive obstacles to return home to his wife, Penelope, in Ithaca. Ulysses <\/em>is a novel by the acclaimed Irish novelist James Joyce. In Ulysses<\/em>, Joyce parallels the journey of his protagonist, Leopold Bloom, to that of Odysseus in Homer\u2019s epic poem. <\/em>Alison relates many of her later experiences with her father to Joyce\u2019s novel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ulysses<\/em>, Bloom has a moment of reconciliation with his friend Stephen. Though this moment is a direct parallel to the moment of reconnection between Odysseus and his son Telemachus when the hero returns to Ithaca, there is much less emotion than in Homer\u2019s work. Alison calls her moment with her father in the car their \u201cIthaca moment.\u201d<\/strong> She compares it more directly to Joyce\u2019s work as their reconciliation was not as emotional as in Homer\u2019s epic.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point in Ulysses<\/em>, Bloom contemplates the death of his father, Rudolph, who had left a note and then killed himself because of the persecution he experienced as a Jewish man. Though her father didn\u2019t leave a note, she compares her father\u2019s death as a closeted man in Beech Creek, PA to that of Rudolph as a Jewish man in anti-Semitic Dublin.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What does it mean to be closeted? How is this explored in the book Fun Home? Throughout most of Fun Home, Alison makes it clear that her father was a closeted gay or bisexual man. Later, Alison comes out to her family as a lesbian. Read more about how Alison Bechdel explores what it means to be closeted, through her own experience and through her father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,24],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-21309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","category-relationships","category-society","tag-fun-home","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"\nCloseted in Fun Home Book: Repressing Sexuality - Shortform Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What does it mean to be closeted? 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