Symbolism In The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

This passage is about the Walls family getting kicked out of Erma’s place so they go and buy a run down house for them to live in then fix it up so it’s more suitable to live in. Some would say that it’s what some has that would keep you going, but in this passage Jeannette Walls conveys an idea that it’s the intangible possessions that can really keep you going. The author helps convey this idea through the use of symbolism. This is a passage from Jeannette Wall’s memoir, The Glass Castle. In this passage Jeannette Walls uses symbolism to show that it’s the intangible materials that really keep you going. When the Mom and Dad arrive at Erma’s from their trip to retrieve what they could in Phoenix the kids learn “Pretty much everything was gone, including, of …show more content…
This uses symbolism to to show that it’s really the intangible that gets you through the day by symbolizing the bikes as hope for a better future. Because their bikes have been stolen it symbolizes that they’ve lost their hope for a better future in Welch. This shows how the kids have lost most of their physical possessions that they left in Phoenix and it demonstrates the kids have to keep moving using the intangible, like the ideas about the glass castle. When the Walls family starts examining their new house they learn the condition is pretty poor and it lacks indoor plumbing but Jeanette points out “The important thing, the reason he and Mom had decided to acquire this particular piece of property, was that it came with plenty of land to build our new house. He intended to follow the blueprints for the Glass Castle”(Walls, 152). The Walls have bought a new house, the land of which they intend to use to build the Glass Castle. The Glass Castle is a symbol for the pursuit of happiness throughout this memoir. The author uses the symbol