Cultural

One of, if not the most obvious, ways to read Fun House is from the angle of American culture. The American idea of what a woman's, a wife's, a mother's role should be influences Alison's mother's decision to stay with her father, and later leave him.

Again, culture surfaces in the idea of a bar you just "have to know about." Far from a unique concept, but a cultural footnote nonetheless.

Our final example is the cultural idea of masculinity that Alison sees and envys, as well as compares to her father's own percieved "manliness."

A cultural reading of a work is almost impossible to avoid, as everything an artist creates will reflect the culture that they come from in some way or another.

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