Analysis Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

Jeannette Walls shares a remarkable story of shattered promises, everlasting courage, and an amazing bond between the members of a broken family in her memoir The Glass Castle. The story follows Jeannette’s life with her siblings, Lori, Maureen, and Brian, as well as her free-spirited parents, Rex and Rose Mary Walls. Walls tells a tale of hardship, struggle, and will power as she delves deep into her rather unconventional childhood of adventure and tragedy.

The book is organized into five different sections, the first being a conversation between a well-off Jeannette and her homeless mother. The second section speaks about the family’s time living in the desert as Rex’s drinking habits getting progressively worse. Then the third piece explains

She realizes that some parts of her life may seem unbelievable so she uses that to her advantage. She makes it so that whilst reading the story, the audience doesn’t have a chance to be bored. The way she voices her words has a way to captivate whoever is reading them. One can feel the nostalgia in Walls’s voice when she tells about her star-filled nights in the dessert as well as the resentment in her voice as she thinks back to glass castle her father never had the time to build. The riveting manner in which Walls voices her story is what makes it such an enjoyable

“We were always doing the skedaddle, usually in the middle of the night” (Walls 18). This allows the general audience reading her memoir to connect more to her and her flawed family. Writing in the vernacular allows the reader to feel as though Jeannette is having a personal conversation with them. She doesn’t try to set herself superior to her readers; she simply wants to tell the true story of her insane life. Once again, her use of this technique helps strengthen the connection she has with whoever is reading her book.

While reading her story, one may notice that most of the words written may not be particularly sophisticated. Jeannette tends to veer away from using complicated vocabulary in her writing. Her style is simplistic yet defined which makes her memoir easy to read as well as easy to understand. When people talk to one another, more often than not they do not flaunt their vocabulary in a day to day conversations. The author seems to be trying to emulate that very feeling by writings in the same way she speaks. This unique characteristic helps make her sentences more