Bruce Bechdel and the loaf of bread

SPOILER ALERT BUT NOT REALLY

Actually, it was a bread truck.
(I changed the title of the thread, okay?)

So as part of my Fun Home obsession I am now reading the graphic novel. Allison Bechdel is upfront with the fact that there's no real proof that her father stepped in front of that truck on purpose, although circumstancial evidence makes it pretty likely he did.

I am confused though. Bechdel writes that the truck driver saw him jump backwards into the road "as if he saw a snake." And yet she repeatedly draws him holding the pile of weeds he had crossed the highway to dispose of while an oncoming truck is approaching. Was he still holding the weeds when he got hit? Because that would make it seem more like an accident than a suicide.

Does anyone have an answer?

Updated On: 12/30/14 at 01:49 AM

It's stated at the beginning of the play that he killed himself, and the entire play revolves around it, so no, it's not a spoiler...

Yep. It's a spoiler. Thanks for being an obnoxious assHole, Baritone.

I can understand the details of the death could be a spoiler, but not the death itself.

That is part of the premise and it is on the press release of the show:

When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life. Moving between past and present, Alison relives her unique childhood playing at the family's Bechdel Funeral Home, her growing understanding of her own sexuality and the looming, unanswerable questions about her father's hidden desires.

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It's almost 2015 are we still crying about spoilers? It sucks but move on w/ your life???

Thank god no one transgressed and mentioned what the "fun home" is.

Serious question:

At the end of "Come to the Fun Home", Al mentions an "________ hook", which is a tool they use in their business.

I keep hearing aneurism hook, which doesn't seem right. What is she saying?

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You do see him hauling yard debris in one of her drawings, I think she is leaving a small possibility that it wasn't a suicide. I don't think it's a spoiler, the excellence of this story is you know how it ends from the beginning and yet it still breaks your heart. The story is about Alison coming to grips with her father's life and death, not only the death itself.

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Except the op tells us the reference in the first few words of his post.

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Thank you, Kad.

And Everlast85, if you are going to call someone an "obnoxious asshole" on this board for any reason, you do not belong here.

Apologies to anyone for who I ruined THE FIRST TEN MINUTES OF THE PLAY. Jesus.

Dammit- there's a loaf of bread? Now you've spoiled that too!

All these board members crying about "spoilers" are just downright foolish. If they actually took the time to research anything at all that has to do with Bruce Bechdel, Alison, her original memoir or the musical, "FUN HOME" they would easily find out that a possible suicide was originally speculated.

The original memoir was published in 2006! So how is The Distinctive Baritone's original post or thread title a "spoiler"?

Updated On: 12/30/14 at 11:51 AM

Jesus Christ, this Board is full of f*cking cry-babies. So pathetic.