At the end of the novel there are two frames one with a letter that Bruce sent to Alison where she says, \u201cI think of his letter, the one where he does and doesn\u2019t come out to me\u201d (Bechdel 230). Then there is frame with a passage from James Joyce\u2019s novel Ulysses. In his letter he is talking to Alison about her keeping her options open with her sexuality and it being a cop out, he says, \u201cTaking sides is rather heroic, and I am not a hero.\u201d Then in the next frame it shows Stephen Dedalus saying, \u201cYou saved men from drowning. I am not a hero however\u201d (Bechdel 230). Here Stephen denies responsibility by saying he is not a hero and in the frame above Bruce uses this characters line to deny responsibility of choosing a side in terms of his sexuality. This is his way of coming out to Alison through a character of a novel\u2019s words. In Autobiography of Red Geryon is able to express himself through his photographs because of his disconnect with language. He feels certain ways on the inside but isn\u2019t able to express those feelings with language so he uses photography as a way of brings those feelings out. Similarly to Geryons use of a tool to represent himself and his feelings, Bruce uses literature and their characters to represent himself and his feelings. Unlike Geryon it is not because of his disconnect with language it\u2019s because of his disconnect of his own sexual identity. He knows how he feels about his sexuality on the inside but he can\u2019t expresses himself, so he uses the characters in the books he has read to connect with and be able to express himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At the end of the novel there are two frames one with a letter that Bruce sent to Alison where she says, \u201cI think of his letter, the one where he does and doesn\u2019t come out to me\u201d (Bechdel 230). Then there is frame with a passage from James Joyce\u2019s novel Ulysses. In his letter … Continue reading Expressing Himself Through a Character<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3024,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}