Jeannette Walls, the author of “ The Glass Castle”, developed a story based on earlier memories of her sad life. The Walls family has been moving around the US for years, not being in most houses for more than a few months. Each new location being different from the last. An “adventure” is what the family would call it every time they skedaddled out of their current home. The one responsible, it seems, for all these sudden moves in location is Rex Walls. He is the father of 4 children, including Jeannette, the author. Rex is a very loving man to his children, although very greedy in his actions, and creative with his handy work.
Rex occasionally seems to be a very loving father to his children but just may not know how to physically show it …show more content…
“Can your dad come out and play?” (pg 59). Said by one of the neighborhood children coming to the Walls house to play with the father of the house. Rex would play with the kids whenever he could. This was his way of showing his love for his kids. “What was most important to us was who ran the fastest and whose daddy wasn 't a wimp” (pg 59). He was not a wimp to their neighborhood. In his eyes, that was his way of showing his kids how cool and fun he was. Which had meant a lot to him knowing his kids looked up to him, even if it was for only a short time. Even though Rex Walls was a loving father on occasion there were times that he has shown his greedy …show more content…
Getting the facts about work, and that he could not get a steady job. He would go out to drink which would only make him angrier with himself. Just because he is mad at himself did not hold him back from going back home and taking it out on the family. “He broke windows and smash dishes and furniture until he’d spent all his anger”(pg 112). His children would have to try and calm him down before he started to do real damage to anything or anyone. While in his full anger rampage, he did not care who watched or what he was doing to the families things. He would be so drunk that nothing mattered to him. He would do this more than once a week, knowing what he does when he is intoxicated. Even though Rex has been a very destructive and greedy individual he has also been known to be quite to handy man when is comes to working with his hands.
Money was obviously always a problem with Rex, So always having the right tools to fix things was not possible for most situations. But that never stopped him from getting the job done and done to his best ability. “ When the neighbors Tv was broken, Dad opened the back and used a macaroni noodle to insulate some crossed wires”(pg 22). To most people in the neighborhood Rex Walls was quite the handy man and knew what he was doing. “He was an expert in math and physics and electrical” (pg23). Rex did very well with his hands and could always find alternative ways of fixing
Rex occasionally seems to be a very loving father to his children but just may not know how to physically show it …show more content…
“Can your dad come out and play?” (pg 59). Said by one of the neighborhood children coming to the Walls house to play with the father of the house. Rex would play with the kids whenever he could. This was his way of showing his love for his kids. “What was most important to us was who ran the fastest and whose daddy wasn 't a wimp” (pg 59). He was not a wimp to their neighborhood. In his eyes, that was his way of showing his kids how cool and fun he was. Which had meant a lot to him knowing his kids looked up to him, even if it was for only a short time. Even though Rex Walls was a loving father on occasion there were times that he has shown his greedy …show more content…
Getting the facts about work, and that he could not get a steady job. He would go out to drink which would only make him angrier with himself. Just because he is mad at himself did not hold him back from going back home and taking it out on the family. “He broke windows and smash dishes and furniture until he’d spent all his anger”(pg 112). His children would have to try and calm him down before he started to do real damage to anything or anyone. While in his full anger rampage, he did not care who watched or what he was doing to the families things. He would be so drunk that nothing mattered to him. He would do this more than once a week, knowing what he does when he is intoxicated. Even though Rex has been a very destructive and greedy individual he has also been known to be quite to handy man when is comes to working with his hands.
Money was obviously always a problem with Rex, So always having the right tools to fix things was not possible for most situations. But that never stopped him from getting the job done and done to his best ability. “ When the neighbors Tv was broken, Dad opened the back and used a macaroni noodle to insulate some crossed wires”(pg 22). To most people in the neighborhood Rex Walls was quite the handy man and knew what he was doing. “He was an expert in math and physics and electrical” (pg23). Rex did very well with his hands and could always find alternative ways of fixing