It's A Wonderful Life: Jimmy Stewart
Sydney, I agree with some of the things you said in your post. Bruce Bechdel is quick to anger and lashes out at his children sometimes for no good reason. On pages 10-11, Alison uses the classic film, It’s a Wonderful Life to show similarities between Jimmy Stewart’s characters scarce frustrated outbursts towards his family and Alison’s father’s frequent bouts of short-fused rage. It became quite clear to me how unhappy this man truly was on page 7 when Bechdel says her father outwardly seemed to be an example of the exemplary father “but would an ideal husband and father have sex with teenage boys”? I have to admit this singular line actually made me a bit nauseous. Up until this very point of the story, I simply believed this man to