Fun House is a very smart and well written comic-memoir or graphic novel. In the story the narrator and main character, Allison Bechdel, a lesbian, struggles as a young girl to be feminine and is more inclined to be tomboyish. She admires rough, muscular, strength of men as well as men's fashion magazines, not for the men themselves but because of their traits and fashion. At the same time her father, Bruce Bechdel, is secretly an in-the-closet homosexual living a straight man's life. He is obsessed with antiques and treats his furniture like children and children like furniture.
Bruce always pushed Allison into dressing more girly and encouraged her to act her gender. This is a big theme in the book, gender confusion and identity, and is a frustration in Bruce's own life because he himself is a homosexual/bi person vicariously living through Allison.
Alisson is also living her desire to be masculine through her father. She advices hes father on men's fashion secretly seeing herself in the clothes. I think this was an important moment in understanding what both characters are really made of and how similar they are.
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