Dreams In The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

Dreams, contrary to popular belief, are terrible. The best thing to do, is to stop chasing dreams because all dreams do is distract people from more important responsibilities. People spend their time chasing their dreams, but they don’t perform their day to day tasks they need to survive on their own. In the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Jeannette’s mother, Rose Mary, has a dream of becoming an artist. Instead of getting a job to provide for her poverty stricken family, she decides to stay home and paint all day. Her children are at home, hungry and they have to force her to get up in the morning to finally put her teaching degree to use. Responsibilities go ignored all the time just in the hopes of one day catching a dream. Life itself is put on the backburner. Take Rose Mary Walls for example. Rose Mary has a family of 6 to take care of. She spends her days painting or writing while her children are too busy wondering where their next meal will come from. She had to be forced to put her teaching degree to work and even then, she was very reluctant because all she wants to do is paint. She even let her 3 year old daughter catch on fire because she didn’t have her priorities straight and

Those people are wrong. First of all, “a recent study in the academic journal Social Forces has revealed that only 6 percent of adults ended up in the careers they dreamt about as kids” (Haltiwanger). Dreams just aren’t a realistic thing to be caught. On the extremely rare occasion that somebody does catch their dream, they hold on to it for dear life. Holding on to a dream is “like holding a fistful of sand: the tighter [someone holds their fingers] The emptier [their hand becomes]” (Woodard). Years of blood sweat and tears could just end with an overwhelming feeling of emptiness, rendering the sacrifices made all for