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“But when dad pulled out a bottle of what mom called ‘the hard stuff,’ she got kind of frantic.”
 The dad is drinking beer to forget about the pain or just the problems they are facing in their life. 

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“But when Dad pulled out a bottle of what Mom called ¨The hard stuff,¨ she got kind of frantic, because after working on the bottle for a while, Dad turned into an angry-eyed stranger who threw around furniture and threatened to beat up Mom or anyone else who got in his way.”Jeanette is pretending that when the father does something horrible he's just a different Person/ “Stranger” this is how she keeps the idea in her head that her dad is Perfect.

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"All we had to do was find gold, Dad said, and we were on the verge of that. Once he finished the Prospector and we struck it rich, he'd start work on our Glass Castle." She used hope of a better future, where they had everything they needed and wanted, to cope.

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"In my mind Dad was perfect, although he did have what Mom called a little bit of a drinking problem."

Jeanette's mind coped with adversity in her life from her father, by having the idea that he was perfect and could do no wrong.

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"Dad pulled out a bottle of what Mom called. "the hard stuff," she got kind of frantic, because

after working on the bottle for a while, Dad turned into an angryeyed stranger who threw around

furniture and threatened to beat up Mom or anyone else who got in his way. When he'd had his fill of

cussing and hollering and smashing things up, he'd collapse. But Dad drank hard liquor only when we

had money, which wasn't often, so life was mostly good in those days."

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“Dad turned into an angry-eyed stranger who threw around furniture and threatened to beat up Mom or anyone else who got in his way.” Walls copes with this by writing him off as a completely different person or a stranger. This is an effective way of coping because it allows her to keep a positive image of her dad in her head.

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“Dad turned into an angry-eyed stranger who threw around furniture and threatened to beat up Mom or anyone else who got in his way.” Walls copes with this by writing him off as a completely different person or a stranger. This is an effective way of coping because it allows her to keep a positive image of her dad in her head.

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“But when dad pulled out a bottle of what mom called ‘the hard stuff,’ she got kind of frantic.”

The dad is drinking beer to forget about the pain or just the problems they are facing in their life.

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“In my mind, Dad was perfect, although he did have what Mom called a little bit of a drinking situation. “

She doesn't care that her father is getting drunk because she still think her father is perfect. She   ignored the other side of her father.

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“In my mind, Dad was perfect, although he did have what Mom called a little bit of a drinking situation.

There was what Mom called Dad's. "beer phase."

This shows that Jeanette is dealing with adversity because she didn't call her dads drinking habits an addiction she called it a situation and pretended that it was nothing to worry about

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“...It was temporary, Dad was going to find gold”. Jeannette believed her dad when he said he would find gold and therefor didn't worry about the future.

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“Because after working on the bottle for a while, Dad turned into an angry-eyed stranger who threw around the furniture and threatened to beat mom or anyone else who got in his way.” (23)

She calls her father a stranger because she doesn’t want the perfect image she has of him to be ruined by his drinking situation because she looks up to her father.

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“Once he finished the

Prospector and we struck it rich, he'd start work on our Glass Castle.”

She uses the Glass castle and prospector as things to hope for during this difficult time.

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“But

when Dad pulled out a bottle of what Mom called. "the hard stuff," she got kind of frantic, because

after working on the bottle for a while, Dad turned into an angry-eyed stranger who threw around

furniture and threatened to beat up Mom or anyone else who got in his way.”

Thinking her dad as someone else when he drinks. So it doesn’t matter that he drinks because she believes he’s someone else.

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“‘Tell us a story about yourself, Dad’ we’d beg him. ‘Awww. You don’t want to hear another story about me’ he’d say. ‘Yes, we do! We Do!’ we’d insist”Pg. 24

They are taking their mind off the situation by listening to the dad’s story. They cope by thinking about something else that is more exciting and fun

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“In my mind dad was perfect...When dad pulled out “the hard stuff”... he turned into an angry eyed stranger”
This strategy helps her cope because It only lets her be happy and keeps the bad stuff away from her.

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"in my mind, dad was perfect, although he did have what mom called a little bit of a drinking situation"

"Dad turned into a angry-eyed stranger who threw around furniture and threatened to beat up mom or anyone else who got in his way