My analysis of Fun Home

Bechdel's novel revolves completely around the themes of gender roles, homosexuality and fatherhood of course. I believe that creating this autobiographical novel, she is connecting all of these themes into one piece to show the actual complication of her childhood itself. She goes back and forth in time during the novel to show how and when she realized everything her life was about and how a lot of things in her life were different than other peoples lives. She didn't understand at the time what was going on and she wanted the reader to understand what she was going through in her own perspective if that makes sense to everyone.