The most important part of The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls was the biggest promise that Jeanette’s father made; the making of the glass castle. The glass castle was one of the many auspicious sounding promises that her father would never go through with. The glass castle was an overarching metaphor that Jeanette’s father’s hope of a wild, incredible life in which he could meet the needs of his children and make them pleased with him. He came up with amazing ideas, but was too unmotivated and did not push himself. He went back again to alcoholism, even after he promised Jeanette that he would quit and become sober. He failed to provide for his family and blamed irrational ideas like corruption in the miner’s union, instead of acknowledging
