In Alison Bechdel's novel, Fun Home, Alison touches up on some key life changing factors and also some situations that readers may be able to connect with. The story revolves around the relation ship between Alison (or the main character) and her father. One of the most important parts of the novel was when Alison began to become suspicious about her fathers sexuality. This picture is one of the illustrations from the novel which explains one of the situations where Alison began to have suspicions of her father. As you can see in this comic strip, Alison sees her father putting on bronzer. This is where she begins to question his sexuality. Eventually, Alison's father comes out to her and tells her that he truly was a homosexual. She finds out that the man she thought was one of her fathers "friends" was really one of the men he was having an affair with. We find out at age nineteen that Alison her self was also attracted to the same sex. After reading this section in the book i began to question what was going on. Is Alison truly homosexual or is it just a phase? Maybe it was just something that was in her from the beginning? With Alison's father coming out the closet and explaining to her that he was homosexual gave Alison a comfortability with the face the homosexuality was perfectly fine. Even before she 100 percent knew that her father was that way, she witnessed some things that may have or may not have been signs. These signs, subconsciously had a part to Alison's acceptance to her also liking the same sex.  After Alison found herself she was more comfortable with the fact that this homosexuality could be accepted by her father because it is already something he also feels and understands.