The Glass Castle Analysis

In March of 2005, Jeannette Walls released her memoir called “The Glass castle”. Recently, in August of 2017 “The Glass Castle” was released as a movie that was written by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Lanham. The movie starred Brie Larson as Jeannette and also casted Emmy Award winning actor Woody Harrelson. More minor roles such as, Rose Mary, Lori, and Brian were played by Naomi Watts, Charlie Shotwell, and Sadie Sink. When watching the film my expectations and hopes became present in my head and I knew that Jenn Doll was right in saying, ”Lowly paper and ink, printed words capturing the madly spun ideas of one writer’s mind that went on to inspire whatever interpretations and visualizations the reader desires”(1). I was not extremely
The first scene is when Jeannette is burned while cooking hot dogs and her time at the hospital. The tone of the book was that her parents were calm and they felt that what happened wasn’t that bad. The movie’s tone for these scenes were congruent with the book. In the book the doctors at the hospital were worried about how she got burned and they asked, “How did you get burned? Have your parents ever hurt you? Why do you have all these bruises and cuts?” (10). In the movie there was a social worker asking similar questions and trying to figuring out if Jeannette was being abused at home. In the book, Jeannette goes into detail about how she feels about the hospital and foreshadows that they will be poor and not always have the necessities when she says, “That was the thing about the hospital. You never had to worry about running out of stuff like food or ice or even chewing gum. I would have been happy staying in that hospital forever” (12). The movie didn’t highlight these small details and I felt that it left out a small piece of information. In the book something I found to be important is when Rex asked Jeannette how she was being treated at the hospital and she says, “okay” and he responds by saying that ”If they were not, he would kick some asses” (12). The movie has very similar dialogue and this is satisfying because this dialogue shows early that Rex is
In the movie, Jeannette asked her dad to stop drinking and it took place at a different time and different setting, but it had the same tone and mood of the book. Two scenes that were almost exactly congruent with the movie is the scene where Irma tried to touch Brian and the following scene where Rex reacted to that. This was an important scene because it gave insight to Rex’s childhood and a possible reason that he acts as he does. The last scene that was different in tone and a little different in action was the bar scene. Rex let Jeannette go upstairs with Robby out of anger because he found out that she planned to leave. The tone was different, but it didn’t change the storyline or the reaction Jeannette had. The scene after was important because Jeannette felt that her dad wasn’t there to protect her anymore. The movie made the most important scenes identical. After reviewing this movie, I felt like the movie was lively, fun, and entertaining. The movie did some things differently than the book, but it told Jeannette Walls’ story very well. I recommend any class studying this book should end by watching the