Submit a rough draft of Essay #3 for credit.

Choose one topic from the choices below and compose a 500-700 word essay, including three credible and cited sources:

Write a comparative character analysis of Alison and Bruce Bechdel; make sure the essay addresses why and how the comparisons/contrasts are significant.
On page 125, she wonders what would happen if everyone told the truth. Does she tell the truth in this memoir? If her use of figures like Gatsby is an effort to tell the truth, why does she choose to tell the truth through these metaphoric texts?
Bechdel describes her own style as one of “cool aesthetic distance” (67). What does she mean by that? Do you feel that is true about this memoir? After all, she does portray her own blood spattered on the page…
Fun Home is in many ways a book about identity; write an analytical comparison of Alison’s self-realization and self-definition with another figure or character from a text we’ve read this semester.
Analyze the role of the Bechdel’s literal house and its metaphorical significance.
Analyze gender roles in Fun Home.
Free Choice: Develop your own essay topic and thesis based on Fun Home.