Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel, is a memoir about how a father can live a normal life with his family despite is mentally unstable. Bechdel believes her father was in her life but "his absence resonated in retrospect, echoing through all the years..." (23). The memoir is told through a graphic novel to show readers that a person can look, act and be normal on the outside, but suffer on the inside. Bechdel's father wasn't necessarily unstable his entire life, but most psychological problems begin in childhood. In this memoir, Dad is introduced to the world as a normal guy. He has a wife he loves, he has a job, he has children, he has a big house and he has a passion. The father loved to restoreThe myth of Icarus and Daedalus sums up being; a father and son were trapped in a labyrinth, built by the father, so that to escape the father had built wings. The wings were made of wax, so Icarus was warned to stay away from the sun, Icarus ignored this warning, his wings melted and he drowned in the ocean. Bechdel refers to his father as Icarus because "it was not I (Bechdel), but my father who was to fall from the sky" (4). This is Bechdel's first indication that something is wrong with Father, although having said this the reader pays no attention to it because Father is then referred to as Daedalus because he was "that skilled craftsman, that mad scientist who built wings for his son... and [he] who responded not to the laws of society, but to those of his profession" (7). Dad's job was the restoration of his house; "He was... a Daedalus of furniture" (6), "He performed, as Daedalus did, dazzling demonstrations of cunning" (9) but father like Daedalus "was indifferent to the human cost of his projects" (11). The father did not recognize the fact that he was using his children as slaves and extensions of himself. Psychologically, a person who does not care what others believe or feel is defined as suffering from antisocial personality disorder, of which the father showed all the signs "... perhaps he felt he was too used to death..." ( 44). “You might think that the long nights spent in this sculpture of the flesh would make anyone reconsider the logic of not postponing the inevitable” (49) , you might think that knowing exactly what happens after death and seeing that life ends is a body simply exists in a lifeless way and would make a man not want to die. You would think so, but it didn't matter to Dad. Bechdel describes Dad as a confused man who devoted himself to work to hide the fact that he was never happy. They had a complete family, they did family things, but dad was missing something in his life; he lacked a lover, a male lover. The main reason why the father committed suicide was because he was depressed and suffered from antisocial personality disorder. A person can live with these disorders but only with the help of loved ones