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Summary Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

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“I guess we can eat less I said “we have before” Lori said (Walls 67). In the memoir, The Glass Castle author Jeannette Walls Lori knows this works with an alcoholic father Rex and an absent mother Rose Mary Lori knows that every time her dad loses his job from his hot temper or her mom for being lazy and choosing not to work she knows that her and her siblings have to find food and help with other needs.
Lori was the oldest very hopeless as a young girl and down she was very to herself she wasn't adventurous like her brother or sister Jeannette and Brian but ever since her mom bought her glass to help her see better she decided to be an artist like her mother, she a bit unsentimental about her parents getting in arguments but when she's ending …show more content…

“the same” she said “he tried stopping before, but it never lasted”(Walls 18) she doesn't feel like there is ever hope in her parents change she feels like what they're doing now is going to be like that forever her father is never going to stop drinking so what's the point hoping he will because every time she put her hope in her dad hoping he would change but he always let them down so they gave up that forever her father is never going to stop drinking so what the point in hoping he …show more content…

Let them work it out” Lori knows that her parents fight all the time and she use to it she thinks it all just a normal fight that they will just let some steam out and they will go back to their normal self (Walls 70) Lori know this is a common fight with her dad and mom fighting about not having enough money to buy food and she feels that it's best if they work it out themselves because that how it always work and they always
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

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