The Glass Castle is a 2005 memoir. It was written by Jeannette Walls, an American writer and journalist widely known as a former gossip columnist for MSNBC.The Glass Castle is about the story of Jeannette Walls and her family, who is often short on cash and food. It sets place on many different places since the family skedaddles around the country constantly. Some of those places include West Virginia, NYC and Arizona. For the first part of the memoir Jeannette, talks about when she was three years old. She is cooking hotdogs by herself and accidentally gets set on fire. She gets rushed into the hospital and her dad, Rex takes her to avoid paying the hospital bills. They then skedaddle to another place. The main characters of this memoir includes