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“That was the way man was meant to live, he’d say, in harmony with the wild, like the Indians, not this lords-of-the-earth crap, trying to rule the entire goddamn planet, cutting down all the forests and killing every creature you couldn’t bring to heel.”  ( pg. 106, Rex Walls) Before saying this, Rex also stated that he was sick and tired of living in Phoenix and absolutely hated the way people lived with such order and normality. Rex Walls is the the type of man who struggles with conforming to what modern society has labeled "socially normal". When at the zoo in Phoenix, Rex urged his kids to accompany him behind the protective gate around a live cheetah exhibit, and even go as far as to pet the wild cat. Everyone else attending the zoo that day in the general area panicked and tried to take the Walls kids away from Rex whilst screaming that he was a drunk crazy man that should be arrested. To the crowd at the zoo, allowing and even encouraging your child to break an establishments safety rules and let them get in possible harms way, is completely unacceptable and wrong. But in Rex Walls mind, there should be nothing wrong with it. He refuses his whole life to conform along with everyone else, and stubbornly stays with his own opinions and beliefs despite multiple people's desperate pleas to get him to listen and do better.
The picture down below represents Rex's non-conformity to society's standards and social normality.

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"Jeannette, I haven't asked you for a lot of favors, but I'm asking you for one now. I wouldn't if it wasn't important. But this is important." (pg. 273, Rose Mary) Rose Mary believing that buying land that she has never seen that costs one million dollars shows that her fantasies overcloud her judgment and reality. This is one of the numerous times in the book where Rose Mary has showed a remarkable ignorance about how to be a good mother, and what she could have done to make her family's life easier and more bearable. Rose Mary fantasizes that her life is better than what it actually is. She has convinced herself that living for free in the dirt and trash is better than working for a living, and getting her and her family into a better lifestyle and insists that it is the other people in society that have loose morals and are the corrupt ones for having jobs, living in houses and pay taxes. The picture down below show how Rose Mary has learned how to cover up, and see what she wants to see. Like the picture, she makes it better than what is really is. Instead of trees and adventure and learning life lessons, it is actually trash, breaking laws, and constantly putting her and her family in danger.

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"I didn't feel like celebrating. After all he'd put himself through, I couldn't believe Dad had gone back to the booze." (pg. 123 -Jeannette Walls) Rex is constantly breaking his promises to his wife and kids. When Jeannette asks for her tenth birthday for her father to stop drinking, he did for a while. However he eventually went back on his word after getting picked up by a rich old woman and got humiliated by her calling his family "poor". This picture represents Rex going back on his word as well as his family knowing he would never keep his promise and stay sober. They were all lying to themselves when they said they hoped Rex would stay sober.

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" My life with Eric was calm and predictable. I liked it that way,...". (pg. 272-Jeannette Walls) Jeannette grows up to become a very successful writer and eventually starts the clean, calm and secure life she worked so hard for. She was always a mature kid growing up and there are multiple situations portrayed in this memoir that show Jeannette in a mature light. This quote however shows how her maturity helped her get to where she wanted to be in life. Not a lot of people have the same mindset as Jeannette, in fact most people are the complete opposite and crave excitement, adventure, and to be freed of responsibilities.
This picture shows the growing process of a woman. This can also be connected to how Jeannette Walls writes her memoir to show how she grew throughout her unstable living arrangements and unsafe environments she was always in because of her parents incapability to provide for his family properly.

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"I guess we can eat less," I said.
"We have before," Lori said." Jeannette then goes on to explain how all the kids had to scavenge for food if they wanted to eat. They would steal little snacks kids wouldn't miss from their lunch bags and uneaten food from the trash cans. The Walls kids learned how to feed themselves to the point that they could survive on practically nothing if they had to. They had to become dependent on themselves very early in their childhoods and it ended up shaping and molding them into the successful and hardworking adults they are today. This picture shows how the Walls kids are not very dependent on anyone else but themselves.

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"Never did build that Glass Castle." "No. But we had fun planning it." (pg. 279- Rex and Jeannette Walls) At the end of the memoir, Rex and Jeannette finally accept that life was life, and they never got around to the Glass Castle. They finally accepted the fact that the Glass Castle was a false reality and just a hoax to keep the Walls kids hopeful and reliable on their father, who broke a lot of promises with them. And in a way, Rex admitting that he never built the castle is like he is admitting that he didn't provide well enough for his family while they were growing up.
This picture represents acceptance because it is coming upon an agreement between to people. Jeannette and Rex accept that they never accomplished what Rex had promised they would.