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This picture shows the Walls children and how they had to survive, even though they were constantly beaten down by life and their own parents.

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Survival || The Walls children have a horrible childhood, but their persistence allows them to survive through it and escape to a better life as adults.

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Survival || The Walls children have a horrible childhood, but their persistence allows them to survive through it and escape to a better life as adults.

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"I was on fire. It's my earliest memory." This quote from The Glass Castle encapsulates the Walls children's hardships. Literally when Jeannette was three years old, she was already experiencing horrible situations, and managing to overcome them. Since Jeannette (and all the other Walls children) are able to endure through this kind of a childhood, it allows the rest of their life to be significantly easier. Later on in life, all the Walls children (aside from Maureen) are successful, Jeannette as an author / reporter, Brian as a policeman, and Lori as an illustrator. Since Maureen never matured as much as her siblings, which is likely a result of constantly trying to escape her situation, she never endured through it and became a better person because of it. Hard situations make people stronger, if they're able to push through it.

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This picture completely encapsulates everything about the broken hopes and dreams in the Glass Castle. Alcohol.

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Broken Hopes & Dreams || Alcoholism and poor parenting leads to consistent broken promises, hopes, and dreams.

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Broken Hopes & Dreams || Alcoholism and poor parenting leads to consistent broken promises, hopes, and dreams.

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"Do you think you could maybe stop drinking?" Rex Walls would constantly try his best to help his family, but would always fall back into alcoholism. This lead to broken hopes and dreams in his children, because he constantly failed to keep his promises. In this quote, Jeannette was trying to fix this problem, and Rex did his best to respect her wishes, but in only a few weeks, he was back to drinking again. Another example of a broken promise from Rex was that of the Glass Castle. He promised his children that he would build a grand house for them, which ended up as a pile full of garbage instead. While Rex Walls has good intentions, he's unable to keep his promises, which consistently shatters the dreams of his children.

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Essentially, Rose Mary and Rex did this to their money, burning it on useless "sentimental" things and alcohol.

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Poverty || The Walls family, for various reasons, is always poor throughout the entire book. 

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Poverty || The Walls family, for various reasons, is always poor throughout the entire book. 

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"Mom's salary created a whole new set of problems." Even though both Rex and Rose Mary were working, they constantly came up short with money, and always left their children in poverty. This was likely due to Rex's alcohol addiction and Rose Mary's immaturity and narcissism. With the parents always spending money on themselves, there was never any left for the children. The main spending items for the Walls parents was painting supplies and alcohol, both of which never amounting to anything of use. Rose Mary made tons of paintings with her painting supplies, but as she was unwilling to sell them because of how sentimental she was over literally everything, it was a useless investment. And in terms of alcohol, that obviously never amounted to anything with Rex, aside from a drinking addiction. Not only do the Walls parents spend their money irresponsibly, but they also have a plot of land likely worth a million dollars that they could have sold to make their children's lives so much better. In the end, Rose Mary sentimentality and Rex's drinking addiction lead to the Walls family being dug into a hole of poverty that the children are only able to escape from when they leave to New York.

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This chocolate bar was one of the biggest examples of Rose Mary's neglect for her children, when she ate it while they were starving.

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Neglect || Rex & Rose Mary Walls care about themselves more than their children, leading to the children being constantly neglected.

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Neglect || Rex & Rose Mary Walls care about themselves more than their children, leading to the children being constantly neglected.

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"Lying on the mattress next to Mom was one of those huge family-sized Hershey chocolate bars... She'd already eaten half of it." Even though her children are literally starving, having to eat margarine and cat food to survive, Rose Mary thinks it's a good idea to buy herself some food and neglect her children. While they're starving, she buys herself a chocolate bar instead of caring about her own children. While Rose Mary shows constant neglect for her children, Rex has some of the most extreme examples of neglect. One of such examples is when he pimps out Jeannette so that he can scam someone at a bar. No amount of money would make this okay. The Walls parents are both extremely neglectful, caring more about themselves than their own children.

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This picture shows the most immature person in the Glass Castle. Rose Mary Walls.

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Immaturity || Rose Mary Walls has the maturity of a child, and it doesn't seem like she wants to improve.

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Immaturity || Rose Mary Walls has the maturity of a child, and it doesn't seem like she wants to improve.

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"Life's too short to worry about what other people think." While this is a good philosophy, like with most things, Rose Mary takes it to the extreme. Instead of not caring what other people think, she actively neglects other people for herself, and only cares about herself and herself only. She's a total narcissist, and is completely immature throughout the entire book. Unlike Rex, there's no redeeming qualities in her actions. Rose Mary can also be seen being immature when she refuses to wake up in the morning to go to work. Not only that, but her children actually do most of the work that she needs to do as a teacher for her. Especially as an adult with children, you can't be immature. Rose Mary's immaturity leads her to care more about herself than her own children, a common theme found in the book.

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This picture shows how Jeannette was able to forgive Rex, even with everything that he did wrong.

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Forgiveness Despite Negativity || Even though Rex Walls does many awful things over time, Jeannette and her siblings are able to forgive him.

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Forgiveness Despite Negativity || Even though Rex Walls does many awful things over time, Jeannette and her siblings are able to forgive him.

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"We started talking about some of Dad's great escapades... We should drink a toast to Rex." Despite Rex Wall's neglect for his children and alcoholism, his children still manage to think of him in a good light. Rex Walls showed two main personalities throughout the book; drunk Rex and family Rex. When Rex Walls wasn't drunk, he cared a lot about his children, which is mainly showed at the end of the book, when he's able to get himself a stable job after he goes sober. While he was a raging alcoholic, the Walls family realizes that everyone makes mistakes, (in Rex's case very extreme mistakes) and is able to forgive him in spite of the things he did in the past.