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Fun Home (Literature (Catcher in the Rye, Proust, The Myth of Sisyphus,…
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Bruce works tirelessly to perpetuate a facade of idyllic normality. He implements this in a material way by constantly upgrading and refining the decor and appearance of his mansion.
A sign of Bruce's desperation. He highlights a quote: "He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love -- first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."
Bruce's headstone is an obelisk that starkly contrasts the surrounding tombstones. He had once collected obelisks, professing that they "symbolize life" The phallic obelisk is thus emblematic of the defining feature of Bruce's identity in this story.
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Bruce's grave, death site, birthplace, and home all fall within a mile and a half of each other.
A story setting that provides Alison the opportunity to reflect on Bruce's unique relationship with death. She proposes his job may have injured him to death and made him numb to its horror.
Alison picks up her dad's copy to find that he had highlighted a passage about "the exact degree to which suicide is a solution to the absurd."
Helen sends Bruce this book while he's in the army and he becomes infatuated with Fitzgerald's life, works, and sentiments.
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Bruce must repress his homosexuality in his superficial life. He then develops a secret habit of pursuing sexual relationships with the underage males he encounters in his teaching career and personal life.
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Alison has an early affinity for hiking boots, swimming trunks, and masculinity.
Alison begins reading about lesbians at the age of nineteen. She attends a gay union meeting as her first public experience as a homosexual.
Bruce is pleased to hear she is "experimenting". Her mother sends a devastating letter expressing disapproval and eventually calls to inform Alison of her father's secret sexual identity.
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Alison's family took trips there in her youth, and she attributes to these trips a sort of early awakening of her self-perception.
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Alison and Bruce see a woman in men's clothes in a diner. Bruce makes a negative comment, but the woman makes a notable impression on Alison.
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The subject of a class that Alison takes. She becomes annoyed with the class, as its only prerogative seems to be outlining the parallels between this book and Homer's Odyssey.
Used to illustrate the tender aspects of Alison and Bruce's relationship, where he was there to catch her when she leapt.
