Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Do you think the lack of love and affection from Bruce led Allison to where she is today?

           I do think the lack of love and affection from her father is what shaped the real Allison into the person she is today. In the beginning of the book I felt that Allison observed her family questioning the way they interact with one another, especial the why her parents and why the way they try to be the ideal family. In the process of discovering her family Allison was in a way trying to avoid this unhappy fake act that mostly from her father was living. She did what I feel her father Bruce wanted to do years ago was coming out, introducing the real Allison. By her coming out was a breakthrough for Allison and Bruce’s relationship having that short lived moment in the car when Bruce was telling a story about his past when he had a feeling that he was different, “When I was little, I really wanted to be a girl. I’d dress up in girl’s clothes.”Allison replied, “I wanted to be a boy! I dressed up in boy’s clothes!”(pg221) and for that instant they both shared a connection, even though Bruce was adamant opening up Allison took that moment to heart. Allison today isn’t ashamed of her sexual identity because she saw how her father was prisoner in his own body having to live a lifetime of lies.