The Glass Castle: A Literary Analysis
It is more than likely that more than one person has read or watched fictional works of literature where the main character faces obstacles and trauma, but in spite of all the adversity they overcome their struggles and go on to live a long successful and happy life. Today, many individuals are suffering from trauma and are faced with many obstacles in their lives. For example, young adults, may live in situations where they suffer from abuse due to alcoholism, mental illness, or food insecurity. A work of literature that relates to this real-world issue is The New York Times Bestseller, The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls. In the book, Jeanette discusses her abnormal life as a child and as a young adult. Regardless of their struggles in life,
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This relates back to Jeanette life when she quotes,” We were always doing the skedaddle, usually in the middle of the night. I sometimes heard mom and dad discussing the people who were after us” (19). Throughout most of Jeanette’s life she and her family were constantly on the move, either because they never had the money to pay the rent or bills or they had problems with the law. The family moved a total of nine times, which is not quite appropriate for a child at that young age to have so much inconsistency. Jeanette liked to call her family nomads, they mainly lived in little mine towns in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Consequently, their constant movement meant that they truly never had a place to call home growing up. Adding to the inconsistency Jeanette also mentions in her book, “Dad had taken to disappearing for days at a time. When I asked him where he’d been, his explanations were either so vague or so improbable” (171). Jeanette’s father spent most of his time out in the streets either, gambling, drinking at bars, or sleeping with prostitutes. Which reassured Jeanette and family that the money needed to build their dream home was never going to be accumulated. They had to learn to how to be the adults in the family, so they could fend for themselves
This relates back to Jeanette life when she quotes,” We were always doing the skedaddle, usually in the middle of the night. I sometimes heard mom and dad discussing the people who were after us” (19). Throughout most of Jeanette’s life she and her family were constantly on the move, either because they never had the money to pay the rent or bills or they had problems with the law. The family moved a total of nine times, which is not quite appropriate for a child at that young age to have so much inconsistency. Jeanette liked to call her family nomads, they mainly lived in little mine towns in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Consequently, their constant movement meant that they truly never had a place to call home growing up. Adding to the inconsistency Jeanette also mentions in her book, “Dad had taken to disappearing for days at a time. When I asked him where he’d been, his explanations were either so vague or so improbable” (171). Jeanette’s father spent most of his time out in the streets either, gambling, drinking at bars, or sleeping with prostitutes. Which reassured Jeanette and family that the money needed to build their dream home was never going to be accumulated. They had to learn to how to be the adults in the family, so they could fend for themselves