

A part of Alison is certain that it was a suicide, because around the same time Helen had made the decision to leave Bruce, spurred by Alison's decision to come out of the closet.

Alison and her girlfriend were fond of doing this to classic childhood literature.

Alternative Character Interpretation: In-Universe.And then when they do, she's unpleasantly surprised to learn they're very tender and can be quite painful to the touch. A-Cup Angst: Averted, as Alison doesn't even want her breasts to develop in the first place.Bruce didn't physically abuse Alison, but he was still an awful person to her at various points in her childhood. It was eventually adapted into a musical of the same name, which premiered on Broadway in 2015. The book was followed up by Are You My Mother? which deals with Alison's relationship with her mother. The art was painstakingly reconstructed from family photographs, alongside the panels Alison herself posed for. Soon after Alison comes out, he is hit by a truck, which she believes to have been suicide. As she asserts her independence and comes to accept her orientation as a lesbian, she discovers that her father is gay and closeted. It also focuses on his history, how he came to be, and his lifelong project of restoring a dilapidated Victorian-era mansion. The story focuses on her growing up in rural Pennsylvania, living under her oppressive father, Bruce, a high-school teacher and funeral home director. Fun Home is a 2006 comic memoir by Alison Bechdel, creator of Dykes to Watch Out For.
