The Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls is a memoir that describes her abnormal if not completely insane upbringing. The story is one that the reader would assume be a fiction, that no parents are that lacking in their authority or so cavalier as to not care if their elementary aged children roam the streets of Phoenix in the dead of night, but the emotion and depth that is felt by each written word can not be written by a person who had not lived through the events that take place. Throughout the novel Jeannette comes to realize that what she loved about her parents as a child would both terrify and annoy her only years later, and while she tries hard to bring her family together somethings can never be fully rectified, but she can prosper nonetheless. …show more content…
Jeannette’s struggle with her family was mostly often because of either her father’s drinking addiction or where they were living at the time. Phoenix seemed to be Jeannette's place to live, simply because they did not struggle as much as usual. When her family moves to Welch her society is bearing down on her for the clothes she wears, and the place she lives. After the Walls family moves into their rotted house on Little Hobart street, she realised that nothing, not even bright yellow paint could restore the house and in someway her life some of it’s former structure and brightness. However Jeannette found herself in writing, she fell in love with her school’s newspaper; it was more than an escape from her home life but something that would lead her to a life she wouldn’t have dreamt