Analysis Of Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle

Intelligence is not based on how people act, but how people choose to live. The Glass Castle, a memoir written by Jeannette Walls contains true stories based on her life growing up. Throughout the novel, many difficulties and hardships arise. Jeannette Walls accounts for her problematic lifestyle growing up with an alcoholic father and a simplest mother. The ending of this novel is not only predictable but also a little boring. The events leading up to the ending include Jeannette moving multiple times, raising her siblings, and dealing with the psychological abuse of her parents. Jeannette turns into a very rich and successful woman. In the light of her dysfunctional family, Jeannette must move multiple times.

The story of the Wall family begins in Nevada. Although they are both educated and well off they choose to live as vagrants on the streets, feeding the family with what they manage to pick from the garbage. Jeannette remembers, “worrying about Mom and Dad huddled on a sidewalk grate somewhere… while my parents were busy keeping warm and finding something to eat.” Uniquely, Jeanette's parents, having well enough money,

Lori, the eldest sister, although physically there, does not contribute to raising her siblings. Brian and Maureen, Jeanette's younger siblings lack maturity and stability. In one instance, Jeannette recalls her father asking her to take charge; “ He wanted us kids to steer clear of him, to stay outside all day and play. Everything went fine the first day...His face was gray and dripping with sweat. I sat the jug next to Dad’s door in case he got thirsty.” While Jeanette's father has alcohol poisoning, she is put in charge of keeping her siblings busy as well as helping her father recover. While watching the addiction of her father, slowly kill him, she must also endure psychological abuse from both of her