The Glass Castle Analysis

Abuse, chaos and bitter love are some things that are clearly seen in the film The Glass Castle (2017), through the Walls family. In the book Jeannette Walls, sheds light on how her father was an alcoholic and how he “brought” the family down with him. Jeannette is the closest one to her father and truly connects to him, and goes along with everything he does. Rex’s alcoholism is a symbol for endurance and hardship and can be seen sporadically throughout the movie and book. In Destin Cretons film version we see the hardships and pains of a troubled growing family. Rex is brought to life in this movie, as we truly see with description and we can see/hear with our own eyes and ears what he is like, which is not possible without the help of the

This is possible by the visual representations, as they truly connect to our five senses. One particular scene that displayed his drunken nature both in the book and in the movie, was when Rex quit his drinking. This scene took place as Rex, asked Jeannette if she wanted anything ""Do you think you could maybe stop drinking?" Dad said nothing. He was staring down at the cement patio, and when he turned to me, his eyes had a wounded look, like a dog who 's been kicked. "You must be awfully ashamed of your old man," he said.” This led to Rex giving up alcohol for short time. In the movie to show his, craziness in the detoxing scene, he was literally chained to a bed screaming like a wild animal. This tells us and sheds light on the true drunk of a man, Rex is. This point is told the same in the book and the movie, but strengthened by visualizing seeing it. This is truly a moment in the book, where I think to myself, that Rex actually couldn’t do anything to help himself. Which questions, that Rex is not at fault for any of the decisions he made. He was always, under the influence and was to deep in to get out of it. If we were truly to blame someone for all of his craziness, Rosemary is the one to blame, for all her added

In the book he takes her to a natural sulfur spring, just with the family and basically almost drowns her to make her swim. We didn’t get a lot of detail in the book, except for the thoughts that Rex was one crazy person. In the movie we really get the scene and how things truly may have panned out. In the movie, we clearly see a young Jeanette, at a public pool with her family and a bunch of people around. This changes the feel of the scene immensely, as there is all eyes on the Walls family. Which makes it go onto a whole other level of bad parenting. What went through my mind while reading the book, was why would a father do this and almost kill his daughter, but in the movie what Rex did was absolutely