By reading more of the Fun Home, I found out that Alison is a lesbian and even her father had affairs with other men. I also found out about the relationship between mother and father that it was not so great. When Alison used to ask her mother that how she met her dad? Her mother would ask her to just let her do the work. I think that her father was not a good father or a good husband. Her father didn’t really respect her mother. He didn’t care about what she wanted. He used to abuse her also. “Crazy bitch or can’t you read a simple fucking map?”(71-72). After marriage her mother didn’t look as beautiful as she was before. “My mother’s luminous face has gone dull” (72). I think her mother tried her best to maintain her married life. Even though she knew that her husband’s having affairs with other men, she kept quiet. I think she was great women to scarify her happiness and thought about her household. “…But sacrifice was a principle that she grasped instinctively” (83). Alison’s father was not really good to her or her siblings. For instance; when they were carrying suitcases at the airport and Alison could hardly move it, because it was so heavy. Her father said, “I don’t care! Move! ”. Their father gave same importance or probably more to the house things than the children that if they were misplaced, he would punish the children. I think that the children always wanted to have fun at the houses, wherever they moved to, but because of the father being strict, they couldn’t make them “Fun Home”. So, when they got to play at the Funeral home, when their father was working in the back, they called the Funeral Home a “Fun Home”. I think the fact that her father liked men; it kept him away from his family and couldn’t prove to be a good father or a husband. Alison’s father died at an age of forty-four. After she mentioned about his death in the book, the story comes back to his death at certain points. She tries to find the real reason for his death. Sometimes, she thinks that he died because of hearing about the divorce and then she thinks that he died because of her being lesbian. Even though no one was upset for that long after his death, but I think Alison still want to find out about the reason of his death. That’s why she keeps thinking of the reasons that why he died. Even I’m looking forward to find out about him, more about the Fun Home, and also about Alison’s life.
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