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The eldest of the Walls children. Lori is usually absent from the adventures of Jeannette and Brian, but is cool and calm in the face of crisis, as when she takes Dad’s pistol to defend the siblings again Billy Deel, who has showed up with a BB gun to get revenge on Jeanette for spurning him. Throughout Jeannette’s childhood, Dad created hope for the family by promising to build them the titular Glass Castle. By their first winter in Welch, Dad allows the foundation his children dig for the castle to fill with garbage, showing an unwillingness to even pretend to work toward a better life for his family.

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On a long drive across the country last week, Andrea and I listened to a book on CD. I had seen The Glass Castle remain in the top-seller section at Kepler’s, my favorite independent bookstore, for months. I noticed it again when browsing the library for books to entertain us on our trip so I checked it out. Andrea and I started listening to the 10-hour audio book on the third day of our trip.

Wow, talk about resiliency! Jeannette Walls, an accomplished journalist, tells the story of her chaotic yet magical childhood in The Glass Castle. Walls’ father was an educated, articulate alcoholic who told his four children that someday he would build them a glass castle in the desert. Her mother, an artist, was a self-absorbed optimist who believed children should be taught to fend for themselves. The family moved from place to place, avoiding bill collectors and law enforcement who were often after them.


There was very little money in the family that wasn’t spent on the father’s booze, so the children were frequently hungry. One poignant and painful scene recalls Jeannette and her sister, Lori, eating the last bit of food in the house: a stick of margarine that they covered in sugar.


Despite extreme poverty and inept parenting, Jeannette Walls – and two of her three siblings – became successful adults. How? They had a few protective factors in place:


Reasoning Ability: Walls’ parents were educated people and taught the children how to solve problems, both through logic and through experience. Unfortunately, the experience portion was often neglectful and abusive, which it need not be in order for children to learn to reason.


Internal Locus of Control: The Walls children had no option but to rely on themselves. They quickly learned that they were able to impact their own destiny and were all high achievers in school.


Autonomy: Having little parental guidance, Jeannette Walls and her siblings were quite autonomous. They got into a few scrapes because of this, but also knew they had to act independently of their parents.


Sociability: Amazingly, Jeannette Walls was able to keep her good intentions toward others and this always helped her in the long run. In one instance, she was able to befriend a bully by showing kindness toward a child in the bully’s neighborhood. She also had a special teacher at her high school who held high expectations for her and saw past the poverty to Jeannette’s amazing potential.


Is this the way we want resiliency to form in children – through neglect? Of course not, but the fact that Jeannette Walls and her brother and sister were able to capitalize on the positive in their experiences and become successful adults is a true testament to the power of resilience. In an online interview, Walls herself verifies this:


Interviewer: At this point in your life, if you could change how you grew up would you?


Walls: No, absolutely not. You don’t get to the destination you are at if you don’t travel the route. I think I would be someone totally different. I am a happy person. I wouldn’t want to re-live it but I wouldn’t want to change it.


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The Glass Castle is a 2005 memoir by Jeannette Walls. The book recounts the unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing Jeannette and her siblings had at the hands of their deeply dysfunctional parents. The title refers to her father’s long held intention of building his dream house, a glass castle.

The memoir spent over 260 weeks in hardcover on The New York Times Best Seller list^[1][2] and it remained on the paperback nonfiction bestseller list until October 10, 2018, having persisted for 440 weeks.^[3] By late 2007, The Glass Castle had sold over 2.7 million copies, had been translated into 22 languages, and received the Christopher Award, the American Library Association's Alex Award (2006) and the Books for Better Living Award.^[4]

The Glass Castle was adapted as a feature film, released in the summer of 2017.

Plot[edit]

Young Jeannette Walls lives with her parents, Rex and Rose Mary, and her siblings Lori, Brian, and Maureen. When Jeannette is seven, the family moves to Battle Mountain, Nevada where they enjoy stability for the first time due to Rex working for a mining company. Rex then loses his job due to not turning up on time and having problems with authority; Rose Mary gets a job teaching at the local school but Rex quickly siphons away her paycheck. Despite their precarious financial situation, the children are happy until a young boy develops a fixation on Jeannette who tries to touch her sexually but due to her many objections is caught. As a result, the boy tells Jeannette that he raped her to which he follows and attacks her when the children are home alone. Lori retrieves their father's pistol to scare him away but the police are called: when Rex and Rose Mary learn that the children might be taken away from them, they decide to flee to Phoenix, Arizona. Jeannette initially believes they are moving to live with her grandmother, but on the way, she is informed Grandma Smith has died and that they are going to live on the property Rose Mary has inherited from her mother.

At first, life seems to improve. The house is big, and Grandma Smith also left Rose Mary a significant inheritance. However, the money quickly disappears and the house falls into a state of disrepair. Rex asks Jeannette what she would like for her 10th birthday, and Jeannette says she would like him to stop drinking. Rex ties himself to a bed for a week to overcome his addiction, then decides to take the family on a trip to the desert. When their car breaks down in the desert, a woman who picks them up and takes them to the city refers to them as 'poor', causing Rex to relapse. Rose Mary decides that since they have no money it is time to move again, and she takes the family to their paternal grandparents in Welch, West Virginia.

In Welch, the children meet their paternal grandparents and uncle Stanley for the first time. They are enrolled in school but since Rose Mary left their school records behind and the children have 'strange' accents, they are placed in a class for challenged children. Jeannette is repeatedly beaten up by local girls, but when she helps the neighbor of the lead bully, she is no longer targeted. Rex and Rose Mary decide to return to Phoenix to retrieve some valuable items and leave the children with Rex's mother and father. While they are gone, Lori walks in on her grandmother molesting Brian. Lori gets into a physical altercation with their grandmother over this, and she and Brian realize their father was probably molested as well. Jeannette and Lori became upset. When Rex returns, he admonishes his children for their defiance rather than defending them, and the family is told to leave. They relocate to a small dilapidated house with no indoor plumbing or electricity, on land that Rex acquires with the intention of building his dream house, a glass castle.

Rex assures his children that their situation is temporary, but they end up spending years in the house as it becomes more and more broken-down with Rex refusing to make any repairs. The family's income comes from Rex doing odd jobs and infrequent checks Rose Mary receives from an oil company leasing some land she inherited from her mother. The children resort to dumpster diving to survive. Jeannette begs her mother to leave her father so they can go on welfare, but her mother refuses. Eventually, after a man from child protective services pays them a visit, Rose Mary takes another teaching job. The children believe their lives will improve now that their mother is working, but their money continues to evaporate and Rose Mary suffers nervous breakdowns from the stresses of teaching.

The summer Jeannette is thirteen, her mother leaves to take teaching classes and her sister is away on a scholarship. Jeannette gives her father some of the money her mother has left her to run the household. She ends up unwittingly working with her father in a pool hustling scam where she is groped and nearly raped by a much older man, after which she refuses to participate in any more of her father's schemes. In an effort to find money, Jeannette lands her first real job, working at a jewelry store.

When Rose Mary returns from her teaching seminar, she decides to quit teaching to refocus on her art. Disgusted, Lori and Jeannette hatch a plan for Lori to move to New York City with Jeannette following shortly thereafter. Lori, Jeannette, and Brian work for the better part of a year to accumulate money for the move. Shortly before Lori is set to move, Jeannette discovers Rex has stolen their money. Lori is disheartened, but Jeannette gets an offer to babysit for the summer. She asks the couple to hire Lori instead, and to buy her a ticket to New York in payment.

Jeannette begins making plans to go to college in New York City and realizes she can leave a year early and complete 12th grade there. Rose Mary is indifferent to her leaving, but Rex seems heartbroken and accompanies her to the bus station. After graduating from Barnard College, Jeannette gets an internship at a newspaper. She encourages Brian to join her and Lori in New York, and he agrees. When Maureen is twelve, the house in Welch is on the verge of being condemned, so Lori offers to let her move in with the other siblings in New York and Maureen readily agrees. A short while later, Jeannette gets a call from Rose Mary who tells her that she and Rex have moved to the city to be with their children. Though Lori and Brian try to help their parents, they eventually end up banning them from their apartments. The parents become homeless and end up living in abandoned buildings. When Maureen enters her twenties, she moves back in with her parents but a fight eventually breaks out between Maureen and Rose Mary, and Maureen attempts to stab her mother. She is then arrested and forced to spend a year in a mental institution. When she is released, Maureen decides to move to California.

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A few years later, Rex calls Jeannette and tells her that he is dying. He dies a few weeks later. Years later, the family gathers on Thanksgiving where they toast to Rex.

Reception[edit]

In The New York Times Book Review, critic and novelist Francine Prose wrote, 'What's best is the deceptive ease with which Walls makes us see just how she and her siblings were convinced that their turbulent life was a glorious adventure. In one especially lovely scene, Rex takes his daughter to look at the starry desert sky and persuades her that the bright planet Venus is his Christmas gift to her. Even as she describes how their circumstances degenerated, how her mother sank into depression and how hunger and cold — and Rex's increasing irresponsibility, dishonesty and abusiveness — made it harder to pretend, Walls is notably evenhanded and unjudging...'The Glass Castle' falls short of being art, but it's a very good memoir. At one point, describing her early literary tastes, Walls mentions that 'my favorite books all involved people dealing with hardships.' And she has succeeded in doing what most writers set out to do — to write the kind of book they themselves most want to read.'^[5]

Film adaptation[edit]

Paramount bought the film rights to The Glass Castle,^[6] and in March 2013 announced that actress Brie Larson would play Jeannette Walls in the movie adaptation.^[7] In August 2014, it was announced that Destin Daniel Cretton was set to direct.^[8] On October 9, 2015, it was reported that Lawrence withdrew from the film. Lionsgate acquired the film rights from Paramount and Larson was cast as Jeannette Walls. Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson were cast as Rose Mary and Rex Walls, respectively, with Gil Netter producing. Filming began May 20, 2016 in Welch, West Virginia. The film was released August 11, 2017, to mixed reviews praising the performances while noting the film's overall uneven tone. It holds a 51% rating on RottenTomatoes.com.^[9]

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References[edit]

1. ^'Best Sellers March 18, 2012'. The New York Times Best Seller list. 18 March 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-18.
2. ^'Best-selling author to speak in Fremont'. The Muskegon Chronicle, Susan Harrison Wolffis, June 03, 2008.
3. ^'Paperback Nonfiction Bestseller List, October 10 2018'. NYTimes. The New York Times Company. Archived from the original on 2019-05-03. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
4. ^'Porter-Gaud hosts noted author Walls'. Post and Courier, FYI, September 20, 2007.
5. ^Francine Prose, 'The Glass Castle': Outrageous Misfortune,' The New York Times Book Review, March 13, 2005.
6. ^'Pitt's Plan B inks deal with Paramount'. M & C News, Jun 23, 2005. Archived from the original on December 5, 2008.
7. ^'Jennifer Lawrence To Star in Adaptation of Jeanette Walls' 'Glass Castle: A Memoir''. IndieWire. Retrieved February 20, 2013.
8. ^'Jennifer Lawrence's 'Glass Castle' Gains Momentum at Lionsgate'. variety.com.
9. ^'The Glass Castle'. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 12 August 2018.

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