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What Are The Important Quotes From The Glass Castle Rex Walls Alcoholism

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In the Glass Castle Rex Walls is Rosemary’s husband and father of Lori, Jeannette, Brian and Maureen. His alcoholism affected his integrity, and we can see various examples of this throughout this memoir. Rex walls had an unstable childhood because he grew up in a town where alcohol was produced, irresponsiblity, alcoholism and violence was the type of environment Rex developed in. Since the beginning Rex Walls showed himself as an intelligent, dreamer, ingenious loving-father. As the book moves on “alcoholic” becomes a word to describe him. irresponsibility made rex incapable of keeping a job, he was the head of the household and with no money coming in, food and basic needs became scarce. There was a time where odd jobs were what keep them from starving, instability is what kept the whole …show more content…

Rex had the tendency to develop conflicts with employers. Someway or another he managed to keep the trust of his family alive. “Do you think you could maybe stop drinking?” This was what Jeannette asked as a birthday gift. Along with that she added“ It's just i think mom would a lot happier, Plus, we’d have extra money.” After this the kids came home to see their father tied to the bed with belts and ropes. A few days after he lost his appetite and trembled in tentation, but he seemed to have overcome his addiction. Rosemary said “sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.” Rex stayed sober for about 6 months, then he fell for it again. His alcoholism often made him become violent towards his wife, discussion went to a whole new level. Rosemary had to deal with verbal and

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In the novel The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Rex Walls is a very special type of character and he changes throughout the book and just becomes almost like a different person. Rex goes from this person that cares about his family and his kids and would do anything for them to this person that doesn't want to do anything to do with family and him just going to the bar and drinking his life away. 1 In the beginning of the book Rex is a protective person towards his family and especially Jennette. Rex may not be be the brightest person when it comes to his actions or coming up with ideas but he takes care of his family, he was always getting jobs so his family could eat and have a roof over their heads,”Dad would get a job as an electrician or

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In The Glass Castle, Rex and Rosemary Walls can be categorized as permissive parents. Rex and Rosemary’s parenting style is permissive because they approach their children as more of a friend than a parental figure, they do not discipline their kids, and they have few demands expected from their kids. The Walls parents act more of a friend than a parent to their kids due to their easygoing nature. Rex brushes off Jeanette's complaint regarding Robbie’s inappropriate touching and does not take action as a normal parent should. Rex had the opportunity to punish Robbie for his behavior but decided not to: “I’m sure he just pawed you some, I knew you could handle yourself” (Walls 213).

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