Analysis Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

Glass Castle is a spectacular forthcoming book, it is a true eye opener by showing people a look into the life of Jeannette Walls. She didn’t have it easy at all, she reveals growing up poverty-stricken living in harsh conditions, her family could barely afford food and sometimes went days without eating or drinking anything. However Jeannette Walls’s father was an alcoholic who couldn’t hold down a decent job and her mother well, she was nonchalant and free-spirited who seemed to not care of what happened to her children. The memoir allows readers to be able to step into someone else’s shoes and see what it was like to be in the same situations the author went through

Jeannette Walls lived a tough childhood because of her parents. They were always moving around trying to find a place to build a glass castle. They never gave any of their children a set home while they were growing up. Jeanette always believed in her father, even though he had a drinking problem, and this

After realizing that her parents are never going to change, Jeannette decides to stand up to them

Lori agreed with Jeannette to have an escape plan but Rex need money to calm his addition and he stole their money “why are you doing this dad” “why”? (229) she was so mad on how her dad stole their money and ruining her chance to go to college by his addiction and how they put in a lot of effort in getting they money since they basically support themselves and the

Mary was an unorthodox mother who was often swaying back and forth between the temptation to pursue her selfish endeavor of becoming an artist and her duty as a mother to assume responsibility and support her family. This constant feud resulted in the entire family losing faith in her and becoming distraught. Jeannette’s mother was one of the key factors that contributed in the plan for her and her older sister, Lori to move to New York and start a fresh life there. It was with the realization that the only method in which they can prosper and live a good life was to leave their parents and start a life anew. Jeannette and Lori realized that they must think logically and think about progressing in life although this plan may not comply with the ideal plan of living together as an amalgamated

During Jeannette Walls’ years growing up, she often faces guilt and shame. Jeannette’s family has always been poor and struggled to get by. Jeannette’s parents rarely had enough money to provide food for Jeannette and her siblings, Jeannette had only a few articles of clothing, and her family did not have a stable home, and when they did, they lived in a home with no electricity or heat. Because of her lifestyle, she often felt shame and embarrassment, especially when she was bullied by others. Moreover, Jeannette feels the most guilt and shame as an adult. Once she moves to New York and reinvents herself, she tries to forget her old life. No one knows who Jeannette truly is and what her life was like before. Firstly, she feels shame from her parents lifestyle and does not want her acquaintances to find out about the way her parents live. “It had been months since I laid eyes on Mom, and when she looked up, I was overcome with panic that she'd see me and call out my name, and that someone on the way to the part would spot us together and Mom would introduce herself and my secret would be out” (The Glass Castle 3). Even though she feels shame because of her parents, she also feels guilty because how ashamed she is of her parents. She felt guilt for hiding her parents from the people in her life, and she felt like she was living a lie. Also, she feels guilty because her parents are homeless and living on

The second reason is, Jeannette and her family having no home sweet home. One of the

I think that when Jeannette considers the possibility that Erma is also abusing her father, she begins to understand why Daddy behaves like this, why he drinks; why he hardly wanted to come back to Welch; and, perhaps most importantly, why he does not want to stand on their side, or even listen to what happened to Brian. Dad's reaction to Brian's experience shows that he has never been able to come to terms with any childhood trauma he survived. All this situation with Erma and Brian, in my opinion, influenced the girl's further life. After most of the events that met the heroine came the moment that was the most difficult for her and when in my opinion she took the most important decisions in her life. It all began with an argument with Rose Mary, or her mother who was seeking an excuse not to go to work after an argument and after mentioning the unpleasant words Rose Mary told everyone about Rex who was very unhappy with this situation, then the action that no one would have done

The Glass Castle is a memoir written by Jeannette Walls, it portrays her life story and shows her hardships. It begins in the Arizona desert with little Jeannette boiling some hot dogs, did I mention that she was only three. So it didn't come as a surprise when her dress caught on fire and caused her whole right side to be burnt to a crisp. When she was taken to the hospital she seemed to enjoy it there more than her home because she wouldn't mind being in a lot of pain. The most common theme in this book is mobility, this is because they move around almost every month due to the "FBI" chasing the Walls' father Rex and when her father came to the hospital and scooped up Jeanette before she was cleared again it did not come as a surprise. Jeannette has two siblings as of now, her younger brother Brian, and her older sister Lori, these two always seemed to have stuck with each other. For example, when they were traveling from San Francisco to Phoenix Jeannette fell out of the back seat and onto the road, if it weren't for Brian and Lori's screaming then the parents would have not known because they didn't

Jeannette’s father described life’s plan as easy as 1,2,3. First: find gold; Second, get rich; Third: Build the Glass Castle and live happily ever after. Reality was quite different though. In the book memoir The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls shares her memories of her dysfunctional family life’s sorrows and pains. Walls describes undergoing through hunger, instability, homelessness, abuse, molestation, and being told she was a replacement child. The book has five sections/chapters and by the end of the second part “The Desert”, one knows something has to change. When the section “Welch” is introduced, and Erma and Stanley’s characters join the family, racism is added to the horror of atrocities. As the reader, one can’t help but hope for

Throughout her novel, Jeannette Walls recounts the experience growing up in extreme poverty due to her father’s alcoholism and gambling addiction and mother’s hazardous, self-serving tendencies. The story chronicles the course of Wall’s life, from her earliest memory, through her time as daddy’s idealistic little girl to her years as a strong, yet timid, preteen to her ascension into an extremely determined and unshakable high schooler, set on achieving her dreams of attending college, to eventually, a middle aged woman, happy with who she has become. Wall’s personal evolution is clear throughout the novel as she slowly begins to stand up for herself and her siblings and call out the self-destructive behavior of her parents, who put themselves over their children. Ultimately, it is clear that Wall’s great hardships motivated her to chase a new future for herself and her siblings, and in turn, motivated her to chase the self-assured, resilient woman she is today: the truest version of

Rose Mary finally gets a job, but Rex drinks away the paycheck. Jeannette makes a budget and tries to protect the money, but Rex always spends it. At one point he even takes Jeannette to a bar and lets a man force himself on her, because it allows him to scam the man while playing pool. She pushes him away, and her faith in her father has finally broken.

She decided to leave her abusive parents behind and move on to a better life as the true meaning of justice to her was that of being actually happy in her life. Satisfied or at least proud to say who she was. All this came from a taxi drive back home when she had spotted her parents digging through trash like they did so often when she was a child. It was not a sense of guilt but of pride in knowing she was able to stay away from the toxicity and formed her own life. Finding justice and what she thought she really deserved the entire time. It was disheartening to see her own parents still living the same life but felt like they never made the effort to change their situation. Something Jeannette

“One time I saw a tiny Joshua sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me.‘You’d be destroying what makes it special,’ she said. ‘It’s the Joshua tree’s struggle that gives it its beauty’” (Jeannette, Rose Mary 38). The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a non-fiction memoir that discusses multiple controversial issues throughout its text. The main character Jeannette Walls writes about her life as a homeless child and her family’s day to day struggle to make ends meet. The reader learns that Jeannette’s parents are non-conformists, and choose to live

Jeannette Walls’ father was a man of great optimism—he always believed that his family would find prosperity despite their struggles. He communicated to his children the idea of a “Glass Castle,” his dream palace to live out his life in. This castle led to Walls’ father’s desperate pursuit to gain funds, resulting in gambling infiltrating the Walls family. Walls’s father became a master of gambling, raking in hundreds to thousands of dollars at a time, but poor budgeting and alcohol abuse depleted the income quickly, leaving his children and wife hungry and incapable of paying water and electricity bills. The tribulations brought onto