In Jeannette Walls The Glass Castle, the entire novel speaks of her hardships and how she constantly work to overcome them. In fact, her main hardship is having to bring her father back down to reality, so she can live a normal and realistic life. Because throughout the novel, the father is portrayed as a man a who is determined but undeniably irresponsible with his life. Furthermore, to demonstrate this irresponsibility take the time when her father continually comes up with money making schemes because he is not interested “... in saluting and sucking up and brown nosing and taking orders” even though those jobs would undoubtedly be legitimately economically viable. Later,however, Jeannette explains how these ideas were not exactly to be
