In this passage from this memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls explains how Welch was a place full of people who liked to fight due to the harsh nature of the town. Walls illustrates this explanation by describing the reasoning behind people’s rough attitudes in Welch, and why these attitudes evolve into fighting. Walls purpose is to show how Welch was a place of negativity and obscurity in order to justify how she and her family had to survive and live in a town like Welch.
Walls claims that she and her family fought once they got to Welch to show how much the atmosphere of the town changed the attitudes of the Walls family. She tells us how the people in Welch made them toughen up so they could “fit in” with the type of people that lived in the area. The fitting in aspect reveals itself when she says how “everyone in Welch—men, women, boys, girls—liked to fight”. Along with that, she explains how there are “street brawls, bar stabbings, parking-lot beatings, wife slappings, and toddler whalings”. She tells us this to explain how they had no choice, but to be tough because they knew they would be dealing with these kinds of people down the road. Walls wanted to start with this short …show more content…
She reveals this when she says, “maybe it was because there was so little to do in Welch”. Her meaning when she says this is how Welch didn’t have many activities that people could go out, and do to be entertained. Also, there weren’t many opportunities for people in Welch. Next, she says, “maybe it was because life there was hard and it made people hard…”. This says maybe as a way of interpretation because she can just observe on why people are hard, and her thinking is that the town of Welch is a town with no opportunities. Walls shows how there is nothing consistent in Welch and because of that people were bitter and hard about the life they
Walls claims that she and her family fought once they got to Welch to show how much the atmosphere of the town changed the attitudes of the Walls family. She tells us how the people in Welch made them toughen up so they could “fit in” with the type of people that lived in the area. The fitting in aspect reveals itself when she says how “everyone in Welch—men, women, boys, girls—liked to fight”. Along with that, she explains how there are “street brawls, bar stabbings, parking-lot beatings, wife slappings, and toddler whalings”. She tells us this to explain how they had no choice, but to be tough because they knew they would be dealing with these kinds of people down the road. Walls wanted to start with this short …show more content…
She reveals this when she says, “maybe it was because there was so little to do in Welch”. Her meaning when she says this is how Welch didn’t have many activities that people could go out, and do to be entertained. Also, there weren’t many opportunities for people in Welch. Next, she says, “maybe it was because life there was hard and it made people hard…”. This says maybe as a way of interpretation because she can just observe on why people are hard, and her thinking is that the town of Welch is a town with no opportunities. Walls shows how there is nothing consistent in Welch and because of that people were bitter and hard about the life they