Fun Home- Bruce's Death.

For my last blog on Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home", I've chosen to focus on whether or not Bruce's death was a suicide or not and whether or not him not coming out while younger like Alison does affected his outcome.
Personally, I think Bruce's death was a suicide. I, just like many other people in our class think that all of Bruce's embarrassment, feelings, and stress from being homosexual just continued to eat him up inside. A person can suppress their feelings for only so long and for Bruce it was a lifetime of suppressing and living by multiple personalities that did him in.

I think that if Bruce came out about his sexuality preferences at a young age he would've had a much greater quality of life. By coming out at a younger age Bruce may have never had children but at the same time he would've been able to be a gay man without anything holding him back. He wouldn't have a family to have to try to be manly for and he wouldn't have to misplace his feelings on his children like he did by trying to make Alison "super-girly." Coming out for Bruce would have of course been intimidating and embarrassing for some time but it would've prevented so much future heartache for Bruce, that eventually led to his death.