Summary Of The Glass Castle By Jeanette Walls

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In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, the childhood of the author and her siblings are described, and they are raised by their parents the loving but deadbeat alcoholic father Rex Walls, and the artistic but irrational mother Rosemary Walls. Over the course of her adolescence Jeanette and her siblings would be given little to no supervision and her parents would constantly show that they run from their responsibilities rather than actually solve their problems. These actions show us that Rex and Rosemary Walls use the permissive parenting style to raise their children. Permissive parent is described as parents who set up few or no limits for their children, lack in control and avoid confrontation with their children,