Analysis Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

Jeanette represents Rex as a reasonable and loving father through Christmas time during which he gave the presents stars to them. She describes the memory with admiration and love towards her father. Although Jeanette says “we had no money at all” her family showed no regret, she instead showed how they absolutely admire him, by capitalizing “Dad”. Rex has an ability to brave the cold times because ”the cold never bothered him” as he said ( Glass Castle 39). Jeanette holds onto her father when other people ignore him because he makes her feel unique, as it gives her one of the most important moments of her life. It's clearly obvious that Jeanette admiration is growing as she continues to describe the experience in positive terms. The final quotation at

In the book “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls, Rex and Jeannette’s had a close relationship in the beginning of the book when she is young. As she ages older in the book that close relationship changes. Their relationship took a turn but Jeannette never gave up on her father. Seeing her parents and how they were, Jeanette didn’t want to be like her them and follow their horrendous steps. When Jeanette was young she and her father were close, but as she grows older it changes, but Jeanette always believed in Rex.

“Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.” That small but powerful excerpt comes from the incredible biography “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls. The Glass Castle is a 269 page Memoir about the unconventional, poverty-stricken, and dysfunctional life of Jeannette Walls and her three siblings.

Rex Walls, the father of Jeannette Walls, said, “If you don’t want to sink you better figure out how to swim”. This quote says that if someone does not want to fail, then they need to keep trying to figure out how to achieve their goal. In the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, there is an unpleasant scene of Rex teaching Jeannette how to swim in his own way. While the book, The Glass Castle and the movie show great details of this scene, the movie shows a extends the conflict in this scene. Jeanette gets angry at her father and the effect shown widely differs between the movie and the book.

People often fall into some sticky situations, but how they deal with them is the thing that matters most. In The Glass Castle, a memoir by Jeannette Walls, she takes the readers through her life, starting at her earliest memory as a three-year-old, constantly living in a state of homelessness. Throughout the story, Walls experiences countless situations from her father being an alcoholic, to everyday school bullies. She uses a series of coping mechanisms to deal with, and sometimes terminate these issues. In fact, everyone of her siblings and parents uses various coping methods for these same situations. These methods may not always be the most effective, but people, including the Walls family, nevertheless use them to get by on their

The Glass Castle," Jeannette's relationship with her parents—especially her father, Rex Walls—serves as an

In Welch, after Rose Mary had left to a college in Charleston for the summer. When Rose Mary left she put Jeannette in charge, so Rex then began to start begging Jeannette for money and because of that Jeannette ended up giving Rex money. After that Jeannette was disappointed and said “for the first time, I had a clear idea of what Mom was up against. Being a strong woman was harder than I had thought” (Walls 214). Jeannette had told her Mom before that she had to be a strong woman to Rex and not let him get what he wants. At the time Jeannette had never had to do anything like that, so then when she was taking over her Mom’s spot she came across the same situation her Mom encounters which was Rex asking for money. After she gave the money to Rex she realized how difficult it was to say no to her father asking for money. Since Jeannette understood how hard it was to say no to her father she was able to understand why her mom was struggling to face him. The Walls family had not really understood each other until they had to do the same thing the others had to

In The Glass Castle, the main character Jeannette Walls struggle with her childhood, dealing with her nomadic life, her early independence, and her complicated relationship with her parents, Rex and Rose Mary.

After reading the first 28 pages of the The Glass Castle one question I have is, why was Jeannette’s family homeless because in the book it seemed like her father was very intelligent and could have a well paying job. The author stated in the book that her father was very good at math and electricity despite having never earned a college degree. Another question I have about the text is why did her father dislike hospitals so much and preferred the care of a “witch” doctor? Could it be religious beliefs or simply the cost of medical treatment. I have this question because in the text the author said how her father carried her out of the hospital after about six weeks and ran out the door. Prior to this, her father also had some arguments with

The memoir, the glass castle revolves around a homeless family struggling to make ends meet. The main character Jeannette walls goes in depth about her childhood explaining what her family went through and how it affected her. At the age of three living in a trailer park in a southern Arizona town, Jeannette began accomplishing things on her own such as cooking for herself. One day she decided to stand on top of a chair to reach the stove top as she boils her own hot dogs. While cooking she

Rex Walls and his wife didn’t live a normal lifestyle, hopping from town to town and having odd jobs to barely get by. Jeannette Walls recounts her father as having the essence of cigarettes, whisky, and hair tonic (Walls). Even so, The Glass Castle is filled with Jeannette’s prized memories with her father. In spite of the feeling of self-doubt, Jeannette still loves her father unconditionally. Rex always inspired the author, and made her feel special. He tries a few times to turn his life around by going sober, but it never lasts long. The characteristic of Rex Walls are developed throughout his childhood, which impacts how he thinks and acts.

“The Glass Castle,” written by an American author and journalist, Jeannette Walls, is a memoir about herself rising up and eluding from the continuous poverty and her unusual parents. Through out the novel, Jeannette describes her non-typical childhood with her optimistic yet delusional mother and a smart yet alcoholic father. Despite the fact Wells’ parents taught their children to be very strong and determined, Jeannette very much believed the way she was raised as being not normal.

The Glass Castle is the story of Jeannette Walls, the main character and author, and her upbringing in a dysfunctional family ravaged by poverty. The book gives the readers insight to the life of the less fortunate in a chilling and capturing way. Throughout the book, they’re many underlying themes yet only one resonated throughout the text and captured the essence of what the glass castle is truly about: the importance of hope in burdensome situations. Through the struggle of the Wall’s family, the author is able to highlight hope as a significant factor in their survival even at a subconscious level. Be it through the mother, Rose Mary Walls, refusal to give up the farm land due to her long-held family beliefs; or the father's, Rex Walls,

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.

Oscar Wilde once said, “Children begin by loving their parents, as they grow older, they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” This quote represents Jeannette Walls relations with her father, Rex Walls, in her memoir, The Glass Castle. Jeannette's relationship with her father is symbolic of Oscar Wilde’s thought. Early in her life, Rex is a good father, teaching Jeannette and caring for them, but toward the end of his life, Rex is seen by Jeannette as a distraction and a bad influence. She slowly learns more and more of her horrific drunk dad, and her overall relationship with Rex changes quite a bit throughout her life captured in The Glass Castle.