![]() Bechdel writes about the emergence of her own minimalist aesthetic as a reaction to her father's embellishments. This melodic repetition emphasizes Bruce Bechdel's ability to cover up harsh realities with beautiful artifice, thus foreshadowing the revelation that he was not the cookie-cutter husband and father he pretended to be. ![]() In describing her father's penchant for interior decoration, Bechdel calls him "an alchemist of appearance, a savant of surface, a Daedalus of decor" (6). "In our particular reenactment of this mythic relationship," she writes, "it was not me but my father who was to plummet from the sky" (4). ![]() She uses this visual to invoke the myth of Icarus and Daedalus, thus foreshadowing her father's self-destructive path. The first image in the memoir is of young Alison playing "airplane" with her father. ![]()
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