Review: The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

From having their three year old daughter get set on fire to acting as if they are above those who chew gum Jeannette Walls’s parents are a walking catastrophe. These “adults” lack any kind of brain cells, more than I thought possible from Part 1: A Woman on the Street. It shouldn’t have surprised me when they broke Jeannette out of the hospital where she was being treated and hit the road to avoid bill collectors. I should have known they were carpet baggers. What I don’t understand from the begging to the end of Part II was how the police could never catch them, it’s not like it’s the 17th century; their tracking abilities were and are utterly terrible.
I was also extremely outraged throughout this whole chapter, yet I don’t believe I should have been. While I really do despise the fact that Jeannette idolizes her father, someone who only seems to be great at math, engineering, and drinking, I don’t blame her for doing so. The girl is too young to see past the amazing stories about a “Glass Castle” that her dad will build. I on the other hand already know it’s an empty promise, this is an alcoholic who can’t keep any job he talks his way into for long; he doesn’t actually have the grit to make anything. I mean …show more content…
It’s quite literally the same thing all over again, just different events. The family moves, Dad gets a new job, Jeannette gets hurt because of her irresponsible parents, and Dad loses his job. Ridiculous, everything Jeannette’s parents touch get destroyed; whether it’s the kid’s constantly drunk father that messes up (like ruining Christmas) or their mother. I really did sympathize with Jeannette at that particular moment about Christmas though. While I am not a big fan of any holidays, my family and I always manage to get into fight no matter what. Just like my last birthday, it was completely ruined by my father. We tried to redo it again, but that doesn’t erase what