The glass Castle

This novel portrays the damage alcohol can do to a family.. The father is a severe drunk and cannot cut his addiction. The whole family is affected by his drinking problem and you can see that the wife is scared to leave him. I believe she is scared of what he will do to her if she leaves him because of the anger jolts he gets when he is very intoxicated. In some ways I think the hardships Rex puts his children through toughen them up. I believe both parents are too lazy and unfit to be parents, but they for sure show love for their children and i am not completely against there parenting methods although they take the method a little far. The children learn how to take care of themselves at an early age and can almost live on their own before I even mastered my own language. In my opinion, they did a hell of a job raising the first 3 children and I think they will do good in life even though they started out with nothing. Maureen on the other hand came at a bad time because the fathers life is beginning to rot and he is around less and less. The point im trying to make is that a distorted family's children may have an upper hand on other children that are babied their whole lives.