The Glass Castle Vs Great Expectations Essay

Also in The Glass Castle, the children lose sight of meaningful relationships. Instead, they lose these relationships with their parents because they believe that getting to a better life is necessary, even if it isn’t agreed upon by their parents. Unlike in Great Expectations, it isn’t necessarily the children’s fault that these family bonds weaken. Their parents are holding them back from living a healthy life and they need to break free. With their parents not doing what is best for their kids and not keeping their promises of a better life, the kids lose their trust and faith in their parents. As the kids become hungry and their parents don’t do much to help them, it causes the parents seem careless. When Rex brings Jeanette and Brian food …show more content…
However, the change that is desired by the children in Glass Castle is a necessary change whereas the change that Pip wants in Great Expectations is unnecessary. In both books, the characters achieve that jump into a higher social class. Pip does nothing to up his social class, whereas the Walls are forced to work super hard and it eventually pays off. Pip realizes that he was content before he was given the position of a gentleman. Jeanette and her siblings realize that it is a bit difficult to obtain a higher social class, but once they are there, it isn’t that impossible to maintain stability in that class; ¨You know, it’s really not that hard to put food on the table if that’s what you decide to do¨ (Walls 288). Brian, now living his better life says this being passive aggressive towards his mother and now knows that it isn’t too difficult to live healthily. They learn that putting in work to achieve a personal goal is what will produce the individual’s highest form of