The Glass Castle By Jeanette Walls Analysis

In the memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls, the author, was most influenced by her time in Phoenix, as indicated by how she describes the neighborhood, house, and experiences there. She had a stable household for quite a while. Although Jeanette and the family faced their struggles, the experience of living there made the kids extremely happy. They all had their own bikes, and they went to a nice school with excellent education. Their father had a stable job, and even though he hated how organized it was, it still brought in money for the family. Rose Mary also got to make her own studio. Jeanette saw her whole family improving from this area, which certainly had the most significant impact on her life.
As the reader, I can tell that she is extremely happy when she said, “when we pulled up in front of the house on North Third Street, I could not believe we were actually going to live there” (94). She had never even been close to a house of this size. The neighborhood wasn’t all that
As mentioned before, it wasn't all that good. There were drunks and perverts and a clan of Gypsies down the street. Although all of these things were totally unacceptable for children to be living near, they all did their best to cope. One night, when Jeanette was sleeping, she was woken up in the middle of the night to a child molester in her bedroom touching her. She screamed, and when Brian ran in with his hatchet, the hunt began. Although unsuccessful, they believed they had won. Jeanette wrote, “We decided we had been Pervert Hunting, which was just like Demon Hunting, except the enemy was real and dangerous instead of being the product of a kid’s overactive imagination” (103). Although throughout this section of the book, Jeanette didn’t show much emotion towards the incident, she was definitely affected by it or she wouldn’t have gone hunting for this man with