Short Story Of Poverty, Rex And Rose Mary Walls

Poverty is not something to be taken lightly in this world, over 45 million people in the U.S. alone are under the poverty line. Those families dream of having enough money to grow out of their hardship and become something in their lives. They try to work the hardest they can, unlike some of the others in poverty, Rex and Rose Mary Walls. Instead of working hard to achieve success, they barely made ends meet while their children did much of the work. Jeannette Walls could not have had a worse childhood with her three siblings as they pushed their parents to get up and move on with their lives. Her family often thought about the glass castle which was going to be built by their father, but that remained only a perfect dream. Jeannette, on the …show more content…
She always tried to do the best she could, even while she was young and left “at thirteen, head of the house,” (Walls 209). While she had been in control of the scarce amount money, she tried to do her best in keeping it all in order by making sure they had enough to have food for the summer. Moreover, Jeannette got another job to help out, “I had seen a help-wanted sign in the window of a jewelry store on McDowell Street called Becker’s Jewel Box...I walked around the mountain to apply for the job,” and she kept her job far after her mother came back (Walls 214). While her parents were out spending money on alcohol or art supplies, she was trying to take care of her sibling and tend for herself. Nevertheless, the only thing that Jeannette wished was for the family to their glass castle, a perfect life, but she soon realised that was not possible. To even try for an ideal life, she approached her mother to leave her father, saying that, “[She was] not being negative,” [she] said, “[She was] being realistic,” (Walls 187). While her mother refused, Jeannette understood she had to make sure that their family would not fall apart due to their parents’ difficult choices in life and live in adversity. Her taking care of the family taught her the values of what it meant to be …show more content…
The black sheep in her family had always been Jeannette with her abundance of determination and ability to continue to work hard. Even her mother had similarly commented, “No one expected you to amount to much...Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.” (Walls ). If a dream had not been attentively worked for, Jeannette knew, it would not be done due to the little effort put in. Furthermore, Jeannette accepted that the only way she could accomplish anything she wanted and she did become a journalist in New York, if she worked hard ignoring the ones who never did believe in