The Glass Castle is a memoir of Jeannette Walls’ childhood, and how her family had huge impacts on her life. At the beginning of Jeannette’s memoir we see how her parents are homeless and rummage through the trash in New York City. Using a flashback, the reader is shown how things have led up to these events. The new settings is a southern Arizona trailer park, which is where her first traumatic incident occurs. Catching herself on fire and being molested, event after event and jump from city to city, we see how they shape Jeanette’s character. In Jeannette’s memoir the most impactful factor in her life, are her parents. Jeannette’s father was a drunk blunt man, who always had his head in the clouds, and was blind to the family’s present
