Fun home by alison bechdel and the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne essay
Both the memoir and the novella portray their female protagonists as going against the patriarchal grain within a familial home and a Puritan society respectively and subverting the stereotype of the ' weaker sex' through displays of great emotional strength. When Hawthorne contrasts this colourless society with the scarlet shade of the " ignominious" letter β