She figures out how her father's family has an endless list of problems and issues with them after Jeannette’s grandma molests Jeannette’s brother. After this emerged, the Walls family was no longer allowed to live with Rex’s family. Soon after, Jeannette’s dad disappeared for days at time, and lied about what he was doing when he was gone. That year two men showed up from New York City after seeings Jeannette’s sister, Lori, artwork at a summer camp and unknowingly convinced Lori and Jeannette to
Jeanette is the eldest of this group of girls and she has earned the rank of a teacher’s pet, as some may say. Her quick-to-comply nature makes the sisters in the home rather fond of Jeanette; her sisters from her old life as a wolf begin to resent her. Claudette reveals a profound level of intelligence by stating, “I
[“I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.” In the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls she writes about her life growing up as a kid.] From moving around her whole childhood and not ever having enough food, to growing up to being a successful writer. They somehow make it through, proving that money can't buy happiness…but it can pay the rent and buy clothes and food, which helps.
On Jeannette’s life journey, along with her two siblings, Lori and Brian, she has to face the complex parenting of Rose Mary Walls, who is optimistic, selfish, and proud. Rose Mary Walls is an optimistic mother who brings positivity to all the hardships
Due to the sisters’ pushing and praying, they manage to move to New York, and Jeannette can land a successful job at the
The Glass Castle is a novel about a struggling family that lives in the desert,and This mainly focuses on Jeanette Walls. The family was very unstable and moved around frequently. They where always short on food and cash. The family was pretty dysfunctional but they all loved each other. In the beggining of the book they children grow up in the desert where they can live freely and explore places and collect rocks.
With Jeannette being so young in the book she's dependent on how her parents build her character as she grows older, and where she explores the world. Jeannette Walls is six years old when her book starts out, and her brain maturity has been already in her teens, she's told to cook for herself and care for herself. When her little sister was or her mother hands her off to Jeannette in all of the book traveling periods. Jeannette only has one family and is too young to understand the majority of the actions her parents take are dangerous and small minded. Having nowhere else to go even though Jeanette never says she wants to leave her family, she has no choice to stay with them because she may not know how to live on her own at six years old.
Dad started telling us about all the exciting things we were going to do and how we were going to get rich once we reached the new place where we were going to live” (Walls 18). Even though Jeanette must let go of the things she loves, she is always able to look at her future with excitement and optimism, thus she only needs to depend on
The character of Jeannette in The Glass Castle shows the theme of adulthood, growing up, and coming of age in many ways. Jeanette deals with very adult issues at a very young age, and the chaos of her childhood forces her to mature fast, which shows the theme of growing up, and her success supports the thematic topic of “putting your past behind you”. What first shows the theme of maturity is the contrast between Jeanette's eventual success, and her parents way of life. When Jeanette meets her mother, Rose Mary Walls, in the streets of New York, we see how far Jeanette has come compared to her mother. She moved to New York at 17, became a successful journalist, and this moment at the start of the book represents a lot of emotion.
When Jeannette writes about how her parents allowed her and her siblings to do anything they wanted, she explains how her, “Mom believed that children shouldn’t be burdened with a lot of rules and restrictions… She felt it was good for kids to do what they wanted because they learned a lot from their mistakes. ” (Walls 59). Jeanette’s mom is not the type of mother that gives their children rules, but by doing so she is putting her children in more danger. So from a young age, Jeannette has already had many dangerous experiences, which makes her a stronger person over time.
Now we’re back to the social classes issue for Jeannette like in “The Woman on the Street”. Walls establishes these questions by depicting her parent’s descent into homelessness. Each child, in his or her own way, tries to help Mom and Dad adjust to New York City. Both Lori and Brian take them in; Jeannette visits every once in a while. But, in the end, they cannot change their parents — and their parents end up living on the streets.
In the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Jeannette manages to overcome her obstacles by realizing her independence. She is impacted by her parents’ incapabilities because she realizes that she has to do things differently than other children. Her father was a stubborn alcoholic who believed that: “[they] were all getting too soft, too dependent on creature comforts, and that [they] were losing touch with the natural order of the world”(Walls 106). He believes that every human should be independent and fend for themselves. By using the term “creature comforts”, her father is trying to separate himself from what he calls the civilians.
Jeanette grows up not allowing herself to call one house a home. The Walls family are always on a run, moving houses consistently. As Jeanette also has to move
Nicholas Sparks once said, “I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.” In the memoir, The Glass Castle author Jeannette Walls shows how her father Rex Walls changes with everything thrown at him as a father or four. In the beginning of being a parent Rex shares his intelligence with his children.
Jeanette’s childhood was shameful due to her parents careless way of living. Throughout The Glass Castle Jeannette hides her childhood just like she from her mother because she is ashamed of what people might think. Jeannette Walls lived a tough childhood because of her parents. They were always moving around trying to find a place to build a glass castle. They never gave any of their children a set home while they were growing up.
