An Analysis Of 'The Glass Castle' By Jeannette Walls

Children need a safe and steady place to grow up in. Kids looked up to their parents and aspire to be just like them when they grow up. Rex and Rosemary Wall have different beliefs when it comes to taking care of their children. Although they seem to love each other, Rex and Rosemary, from The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, create chaos and instability in their home with their volatile relationship. Creating an unstable environment making it difficult for the entire family, it always made the children terrified when they fought because it usually ended up Rosemary getting injured physically or mentally, as time passed by Rex began to leave more frequently and not come back for days, making Rosemary and the children without money for food and just worried about Rex in general.

Earlier this year, I read Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle. The Glass Castle tells the story of Walls and her siblings as they experience an impoverished childhood and attempt to escape the poverty-stricken lives of their parents. In her descriptions of her life and the lives of her family members, Walls influenced my ideas about poverty, homelessness, and escaping hard lives.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. This is evident in Jeannette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, which reiterates the story of Jeannette who is raised within a family that is both deeply dysfunctional and distinctively vibrant. Jeannette is faced with numerous barriers throughout her life. Despite the many obstacles set forth by her parents during her childhood, Jeannette develops into a successful adult later in life. One of these obstacles is the lack of a stable home base moulds her into the woman she grows up to be. Throughout her life, Jeannette must cope with the carelessness of her

Imagine living in a life where everything around you is different from reality. Imagine running from the police, living wherever one can find, and still taking care of one's family just at the age of 16. Jeannette Walls had to deal with all of this and more in her early childhood. In the book “The Glass Castle”, the author uses the characters, Jeannette and Rex Walls, to emphasize the importance of family bonds.

In doing this, they instill her with a sense of responsibility and accomplishment. It strengthens the skills that she will need as an adult. Jeannette becomes adept at setting goals and achieving them through independence and self-control.

Writer, Jeannette Walls, in her memoir, The Glass Castle, provides an insight into the fanciful and shocking life of growing up poor and nomadic with faux-grandiose parents in America. With her memoir, Wall's purpose was to acknowledge and overcome the difficulties that came with her unusual upbringing. Her nostalgic but bitter tone leaves the reader with an odd taste in their mouth. In some memories, the author invites her audience to look back on with fondness; others are viewed through bulletproof glass and outrage.

Earlier this year, I read Jeanette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle. The Glass Castle tells the story of Walls and her siblings as they experience and attempt to escape the poverty-stricken lives of their parents. In her descriptions of her life and the lives of her family members, Walls influenced my ideas about poverty, homelessness, and escaping hard lives.

Colson Whitehead once said, “Let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things”. In the memoir “The Glass Castle,” author Jeannette Walls faces despair and turmoil as a result of her impoverished and dysfunctional upbringing. As Jeannette grows up, she watches her father Rex fail to reach his full potential and his dream to build a Glass Castle shatter as his alcoholism takes control. Aware of the devastation her father was causing, she begins to slowly lose faith in him but doesn’t fail to escape her destructive household and pursue her dreams of becoming a journalist. Due to her parent’s lack of parenting and being forced to fend for herself, Jeannette developed a sense of responsibility to care for others and make amends to improve the family’s lifestyle. Despite the turbulence and destruction her parents had caused over the years, unlike her father, Jeannette was able to find the strength to overcome obstacles, developing characteristics that ultimately lead her to achieving her dream, thus illustrating that adversity has the power to shape one’s identity.

In this response to The Glass castle by Jeannette Walls, I am going to talk about the selfishness and the neglect Rose Mary & Rex Walls put upon these poor children.

Anyone who has read The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls would say that Mary and Rex Walls were unfit parents for Lori, Jeannette, Brian, and Maureen. They would even say that the children would have been better in foster care. Although people say foster care would be better for Jeannette and her siblings, they actually would have not been better in foster care, because it has been proven that foster care can have a deep effect on children as they grow up, and sometimes there are worse living conditions in foster care than in the actual home with biological parents. Rex Walls and Mary might not be fit parents in many people’s opinions, but the Walls’ siblings, especially Jeannette, would not be who they are today without

In The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls was faced with many life changing and hard obstacles. Many people who have read this book think that these hardships have helped her later in life. Her parents were never there for her when she was growing up. Her dad was a raging alcoholic who spent all of his money away at the bars. Her mom was intelligent, but still never seemed to help much with Jeanette and her siblings. Even though her parents were not much help, she loved them the same no matter what. When Jeanette was younger, she was constantly bullied at her new schools, but never went home and told on the kids her had beat her up. She stood up for herself even if she knew she had no chance at winning the fight. This showed how brave and strong

Writer, Jeannette Walls, in her memoir, The Glass Castle, provides an insight into the fanciful and shocking life of growing up poor and nomadic with faux-grandiose parents in America. With her memoir, Wall's purpose was to acknowledge and overcome the difficulties that came with her unusual upbringing. Her nostalgic but bitter tone leaves the reader with an odd taste in their mouth. In some memories, the author invites her audience to look back on with fondness; others are viewed through bulletproof glass and outrage.

Parenting styles vary throughout families. In the book The Glass Castle by Jeannette walls the parenting style that most exemplifies Rex and Rosemary Walls is being permissive. In The Four Parenting Styles” it states that parents often” take on the status of a friend more than that of a parent” (Cherry, The Four Styles of Parenting). While at the zoo, Jeannette wanted to pet the cheetah that the day and the rest of the kids were close to. “May I pet him please? I asked dad” (Walls/The Glass Castle). No normal parent would even let their child anywhere near a wild animal, especially and animal as dangerous as a cheetah. A friend would dare them to pet a cheetah but a parent would not. In the article over the parenting styles

There are many ways to cope with events that happen in life, some are positive and some are negative. In The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, Jeannette tells her story of her unconventional family and how she copes with events that occur in her life. The story starts when she is a young child and how her family is not homeless, they are free spirits and their outlook on life is that everything is an adventure. However, as time progresses and she gets older, she starts to see how this is not how she wants to live her life and that she wants more for herself. Along the way the Walls family comes in contact with different situations that could be harmful to them and how they cope with such situations. The way people cope with things varies from being negative to positive; how people cope with things really shapes their lives in the long run.

Throughout life, many people face struggles of trying to make it, and Jeanette Walls’ family has experienced many of the life struggles, including homelessness, hunger, and unemployment by trying to get by. There are many instances in The Glass Castle that show Jeanette’s life and her family’s struggle over the course of her growing up. The Walls family struggles bring a positive outlook on life with a creative and lucky turn with each event. Many times in the book, the Walls struggle to make ends meet.