Are You My Mother Alison Bechdel Analysis

Does one agree, the lifestyle he/she follows and decisions they made as a child affects their future relationship with his/her parents? Feminist author Alison Bechdel indeed does and from her own life experiences she came to a conclusion that the aspect of how close a parent and child are, can change that child’s live. A parent’s role in a child’s life is affective, and a child is affected by the absence or presence of a parent. Emmy award winning playwright and poet, Susan Griffin believes the relationship between parenting correlates to the selves we become. Susan Griffin believes that all life is influenced and parenting shadows a child’s future.

Feminist author Alison Bechdel, wrote “Are you my mother,” which focuses on the relationship between parents and children, more so her relationship with her mother. Bechdel used her life experiences as a guide to give her output on how different parent to child relationships work. Bechdel pinpoints the fact, that after a certain significant point in life one no longer becomes a child anymore, and at that point their childhood has ended. Bechdel states “Well I’m heartbroken. She won’t be a child anymore” (107). Bechdel makes this comment prior to Serena’s granddaughter getting her period fairly early and believes now her childhood has ended.

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She mentions, her and her mother shared memorable and special moments through her childhood, Bechdel’s childhood were times in her life that can be known as the good old days, put her in a state of mind that relaxed her, and those times made Bechdel feel closer to her mother. Bechdel also mentions that her mom uses to play the “crippled game,” with her which was amusing to her when she was younger. Now present day her mother’s behavior to her life is more brief and pre-thought, they do more of talking on the phone well listening for Bechdel as she described