Essays on The Glass Castle

Representation of childhood or adolescence shapes the meaning of work as a whole in a novel in variegated ways. Some being graceful and innocent, while others are harsh, depicting, and trial. Many novels provide the efficiency of children going through the multiple stages in life, and others providing one particular event. While the many children…

In The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls addresses the concept of family and shows that through self-discipline and perseverance, a child can overcome her difficult upbringing and create a successful future. One example of this can be found in Walls’ memoir narrating the story of her dysfunctional childhood. She illuminates the often unspoken-of world of child…

Throughout The Glass Castle, Jeannette’s relationship with her father evolves. At a young age, all her faith is in her father. She believes everything he says and believes he will always pull through for the family. This changes drastically as the novel progresses. Her faith dwindles in him until she has no faith in him…

The Walls family struggles with financial support, abuse, lack of supervision, addiction. Throughout the novel, Walls writes about her family life of dysfunction and how much a person can grow from struggle. Deeper into the story you will start to understand how one generation of parenting turns the children’s future ideas into a completely different…

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is a memoir that demonstrates the various social issues Jeannette and her family went through. The major issue that the book’s plot revolves around is poverty. The book retells the situation of Walls, her brother and two sisters and their parents, as they face a lot of these social…