Coming Of Age In The Glass Castle

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Secondly, Jeannette from the memoir, The Glass Castle, learns to cope with change by Coming of Age. Jeannette copes with change by becoming a stronger person. Jeannette grows up in an impecunious family. She had to learn how to pay for food and manage money at a young age. Part of the reason why she is forced to learn how to live this way is because of her raucous and vacuous father. Before Jeannette realizes that her father has drinking problems and would never be able to build the Glass Castle, she thought that her father was perfect. She thought that he would give her anything and everything if he just has the technology and luck to find gold. However, Jeannette has to realize that he is nothing more than a washed up drug abuser. Jeannette learns grows up with a father who is a drunk and in order to cope the …show more content…
Jeannette Comes of Age when she receives a job in order to cope with the change that she can not trust her parents with money. Finally, Jeannette, from the novel The Glass Castle, has to cope with change when her parents were homeless. She has to learn to accept that they did not want help. She also has to realize that it is their choice to live this way. Jeannette is used to living with all of her necessities and more, but she cannot stand the fact that her parents are unable to do the same. She has to face the fact that she has achieved better things than her parents ever did and that they are homeless. She acquires the knowledge of to coping with the fact that she is going to be more successful than her parents, in order to Come of Age, “But I can never enjoy the room without worrying about Mom and Dad huddled on a sidewalk grate somewhere. I fretted about them, but I is embarrassed by them, too, and ashamed of myself for wearing pearls and living on Park Avenue while my parents were busy keeping warm and finding something to eat. What can I