The story begins from the adult perspective of Jeannette Walls as she passes through New York City in a taxicab when she happens to see her mother digging through a trash can on the side of the street. Seeing her mom fills her with feelings of guilt as well as dark memories from the past. The first thing she wants to do is try and help her mom get back on her feet, but then again she never really was ever there. When Jeanette's mother, Rose Mary is offered this aid she refuses it and responds by saying she is happy, and that she doesn't want to be apart of the (city). Afterwards Jeanette begins to flashback to her memories of the old days where she explains stories of her life and experiences she's had with her family in chronological order.
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Jeanette and her family are constantly moving from place to place due to her fathers incapability to keep a job. Rex Walls (the father) claims that it is his plan to be fired so he can focus on his variety of side projects that will supposedly lead the family to a wealthier life compared to the more slum life they had at the moment. He uses the jobs to just get money for the moment but not actually to create a long lasting stable job. It becomes even more difficult for the family to statically live somewhere when the dad also is spending some of the money on his alcoholic addiction and occasionally prostitutes. Not only must the family move because of the father can't or refuses to keep a job, but also because "FBI" as explained by Rex Walls, is chasing them where they are forced to run away to another town. Although Rex says it's the FBI it is indicated through what Jeanette hears and also through the father's fun personality that it's probably not the FBI but more just like trouble with the law. Because of the trouble the father get into, they have moved to a variety of areas mainly taking place in the desert, small little towns, and a big …show more content…
Also probably due to the low profiles as well.
Small town- they have lived in a numerous amount of of small towns but have always spent little time there. These towns are also usually in the desert somewhere, sometimes in Arizona or **** or ***. This is where Rex spends the majority of his times "figuring out" how he's going to get rich over gold he found from a machine he built, or build the glass castle (hence the creative/fun thinking). Many scenes take place in small towns many negative.
Bigger town- the only reasons the parents have moved to a big city is because they got kicked out of a different one and inherited a large and nice house from their grandmother who had recently passed away (on the mothers side)
-over all the story tends to have a very dramatic, dynamic, tense, calm, and gloomy mood throughout; I think this has to do with after a few stories the reader cares on to the pattern and discovers the no good
Jeanette and her family are constantly moving from place to place due to her fathers incapability to keep a job. Rex Walls (the father) claims that it is his plan to be fired so he can focus on his variety of side projects that will supposedly lead the family to a wealthier life compared to the more slum life they had at the moment. He uses the jobs to just get money for the moment but not actually to create a long lasting stable job. It becomes even more difficult for the family to statically live somewhere when the dad also is spending some of the money on his alcoholic addiction and occasionally prostitutes. Not only must the family move because of the father can't or refuses to keep a job, but also because "FBI" as explained by Rex Walls, is chasing them where they are forced to run away to another town. Although Rex says it's the FBI it is indicated through what Jeanette hears and also through the father's fun personality that it's probably not the FBI but more just like trouble with the law. Because of the trouble the father get into, they have moved to a variety of areas mainly taking place in the desert, small little towns, and a big …show more content…
Also probably due to the low profiles as well.
Small town- they have lived in a numerous amount of of small towns but have always spent little time there. These towns are also usually in the desert somewhere, sometimes in Arizona or **** or ***. This is where Rex spends the majority of his times "figuring out" how he's going to get rich over gold he found from a machine he built, or build the glass castle (hence the creative/fun thinking). Many scenes take place in small towns many negative.
Bigger town- the only reasons the parents have moved to a big city is because they got kicked out of a different one and inherited a large and nice house from their grandmother who had recently passed away (on the mothers side)
-over all the story tends to have a very dramatic, dynamic, tense, calm, and gloomy mood throughout; I think this has to do with after a few stories the reader cares on to the pattern and discovers the no good