Gender Identity In Alison Bechdel's Fun Home

In the graphic memoir Fun Home, Alison Bechdel shares her challenges as a young woman struggling with gender and sexual identity. In many ways we see Alison has similar characteristics with her father. Their relationship is important because as her father rejects his gender stereotype, Alison develops her gender identity to compensate for what her father lacks. As a child, Alison, compared the way she saw men portray themselves and compared their characteristics to her father’s. “…And who answered not to the laws of society, but to those of his own craft,” (Bechdel 2006:7). She could see her father lacked the ideal masculinity that we as a society think of how men are typically considered. “I measured my father against the grimy deer hunters