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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
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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