Fun Home 2

 After finishing my last post a bit confused I continued to read a bit more of the book to try and become less confused, but as I should have expected this book keeps me guessing.  At the end of the first chapter the father dies/commits suicide, but at the beginning of chapter two we see that it's not so clear cut.  People are unsure as to if it was an accident or a suicide gone wrong/right depending on how you look at it.  Some of the people at the funeral were raving about how good a man the father was but they were only going off what they saw on the outside.  The man who restored houses and had a perfect family.  They didn't get to see the hard times the children went through, dealing with his need for perfection, his lack of affection, and his abuse.  In chapter two it is mentioned that they refer to the funeral home that the family owns as the 'fun home,' I think that the funeral home got it's name because that was the only place where the children were allowed to be children.  The father was so structured and fun sucking that the kids could only have fun at the 'fun home,' there they could escape the grasp of their father and let their imaginations run free. I truly believe the father comes off as coldhearted because that's all he knows from growing up, and a line in chapter two confirms my thoughts, 'maybe this was the same his own notoriously cold father had shown him his first cadaver.' The father is so cold because he was probably treated the same way when he was growing up.