Desire For Success In The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

As children, we are naturally, curious, eager and willing to try new things. When they don’t work out we are quick to move on and try something else. We don’t waste time or start worrying about what didn’t work, we simply move on to trying something else. As we grow older we learn that failure is unacceptable and we always need to be on our feet and improving ourselves all the time so we can decrease the chances of failure. I believe that in this world everyone is hungry for success and no one wants to fail in something they would love to accomplish one day. Desire for success is like a “drug” in this generation, without success people look down upon you and will believe that you’re not worth their time without giving you a chance. The phrase

“intense desire for success actually contributes to failure” means that the more you want to gain success and believe that everything you dreamt of and hoped of will go the way you want it to it will end up crushing you.

In the novel “the glass castle” by Jeannette Walls.

She tells how her father Rex is so hungry for success just when he’s a young adult. He has all these good paying jobs such as a pilot but ended up leaving because he wanted more and more success. After he gets married with Jeannette’s mom Rose Mary, he’s doing a good job and being responsible but later due to his actions to striving for more success he ends up broke and starts to spend money on alcohol and gambling. He’s desire for more success doesn’t stop there and starts to build a machine called the prospector that will help him find gold. He also promises he’s family that one day he will stop drinking and gives his family hope by saying that he will make a glass castle in the desert for them and everything will be perfect, even though they know it won’t come

true.

When the Walls family is completely broken and Rex has failed to earn a bit of success that he desperately needs for his family, they have to move ones every week because of the people after them that Rex owns money. Jeannette’s brother and sister learnt from a very young age that they have to depend on each other for their most basic needs because both their parents were distracted by their own interests. Even though Rex got drunk a lot he still cared about the kids but Rose, was obstinately focused on her own hobbies such as painting and reading and wanted the kids to do most of the stuff by them self which ones led to Jeannette catching her dress on fire. Both parent although genuinely loved them, and the children were happy despite their day to day struggles with poverty. It was their parent’s genuine love which empowered their children with the tools to overcome the hardship and that’s why Jeannette became a successful author she is today.

Each day we are moving forward, step closer to success but to much desire for success can have a negative affect on our life.

I used to have a very simple issue but never noticed until a teacher pointed it out. I was always focused in handing in my assignments on time and believed by doing so I was definitely going to be successful and be getting a good mark on it but most of the time I was disappointed in not getting the mark I wanted and never understood why I got the mark I did. One day I asked my teacher and she told me that I’m always in a hurry to hand in my assignments on time that I forget to take a second look or add more details and make silly mistakes that affect the

mark.

Everyone has a different perspective on success for some it might be to just have a nice family that they can support and for other it might be living a rich life without worrying about anything but wanting to much of anything can make you greedy and that might end up taking to the path of failure which you don’t want to be on. Jeannette life story shows how success is a long path that one has to go through and is not earned by just saying that I want it but actually going after it step by step and feeling the pain and the struggle but also the accomplishment at the end.