![]() ![]() The role-reversing relationship between Alison and her father is articulated through the representation of the characters of both Icarus and Daedalus from Greek mythology, and Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom in Joyce’s Ulysses. Fun Home explores the tension between the desires and needs to live according to realism or fantasy. ![]() ![]() Narrator Alison herself tells us in Chapter Three that “I employ these allusions to James and Fitzgerald not only as descriptive devices, but because my parents are the most real to me in fictional terms.” (Modernism) In this narrative of young Alison’s life, the lines between art and reality are blurred to give the reader the perspective through which Alison so intentionally chose to artfully depict the story of her childhood, family, sexuality, and her father’s mysterious death. “The literary intertextuality of Fun Home is palpable. Much like how Joyce’s Ulysses is a story dependent upon a framing of intertextuality between his work and Homer’s Odyssey, Bechdel’s Fun Home has a method of storytelling crafted through a conscious continuation of this literary tradition. ![]() In Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, the story is crafted through a lens of intertextuality between the characteristics of people in her life and those in great literary works such as James Joyce’s Ulysses. ![]()
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