When reading the short piece, "The Canary-Colored Caravan of Death", I didn't quite understand it the first few times that I had read it. I had to reread it quite a few times in order to somewhat understand what was going on. The piece before the story began, it described some of Alison Bechdel life. Her parents were both high school English teachers and also ran a funeral home that doubled as their home.
Bechdel was a graduate of Oberlin College. She repeatedly applied to art schools but failed to get in, so she took various jobs in a publishing company. Bechdel is an award-winning cartoonist and that was the type of story that we read for homework. In this specific story, she begins with telling us about a dream she had before her father died. She also told us he absolutely loved to spend his time tanning outside. It says in the small passage before the story, that she wrote it because she was exploring her coming to understand her and her father's sexuality.
The story provides a lot of description so it gives you a visual in your head while reading. There were some words that I didn't quite understand and had to look up so I could better understand what I was reading. I didn't exactly like this passage as much as I did with the last one, but that could be because I didn't quite understand it at first.
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