Fun Home-Asope

In the novel FUN HOME, the narrator who is also the main character, Alison, tells us about her life and family as she grew up. One thing that you come to understand is that her father is a very meticulous and order centered man. The narrator tells the readers that her and her father are inverts of each other. She reports that her father is a "sissy" and that he liked flowers and feminine things. IN contrast, the narrator was more attracted to masculine things, like shirts with french cuffs and dressing more like a boy. The narrator states that her and her father filled in for each other where the other lacked. On page 120 of the novel, you can see pictures of the narrator's father where he is in a female bathing suit and you also see a pose of him on a beach. In both of these pictures her father looks very feminine and lacks the masculine quality that fathers are known to have. There is also a picture of the narrator and she looks more masculine then feminine. I think these panels help the reader to see that both of these characters longed for the others anatomy, but they could only mock the others image. They truly are inverts of each other, wanting what the other has.