Theme Of The Glass Castle By Jeannette Walls

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A common theme throughout the memoir, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, is that of balance between turbulence and order. It is spoken about by the characters in the story, and is alluded to throughout the entire plot, as well as through the setting. Rex references it with the fire, it is brought up when Rex starts drinking, and is mentioned again at the end of the book. Rex first talks about the balance between turbulence and order when Brian and Jeanette almost die in the fire they started when they were playing with toxic waste. He tells them that there either aren’t rules that exist in the boundary between turbulence and order, or that they are just yet to be understood; “a place where no rules apply, or at least they haven’t figured