The Glass Castle Book Vs Movie

The Glass Castle follows the life of the Walls family, providing insight into their strange, yet non-fictional lives. Both the book and movie portrayals focus specifically on Jeanette, the writer of the novel and the movie’s protagonist. The story starts in New York, focusing on Jeanette’s life as a successful writer living in luxury. She has a seemingly perfect life - until it is interrupted after spotting her homeless parents rifling through the trash as she drove by in a cab. The book and movie go into flashback, telling the story of her rough childhood and the ways in which she and her siblings stuck together to avoid extreme poverty and a lifestyle of nomadity. In their childhood, the walls children were forced to mature and grow up faster than the average. Although it was evident that the children felt their parents love, their parents were not very fit for raising children (despite the fact that they had four). Rex, the father was an alcoholic, and Rose Mary, their mother, a distracted artist. Their father’s paranoia about the state and organized society, along with his alcoholism and inability to keep a job, leads them to move frequently. With no money and no permanent home, the Walls turn towards Rex’s family

On top of that, Grandma Walls sexually abuses Brian, Jeanette’s younger brother. Jeannette and Lori, fed up with their parent’s irresponsibility, hatch a plan to move to New York. Ultimately, the girls accomplish this, bringing their younger siblings out to live with them. Jeanette gets a job as a writer and marries a wealthy man, becoming the successful woman she set out to be. Feeling abandoned, Rex and Rose Mary move to New York and become squatters in an abandoned building. After her father dies, Jeanette realizes that despite her crazy childhood, part of her thrive on the sense of adventure that her parents instilled in