She tries to avoid conversation about her parents and when that fails she lies about them. After 4 years living together, Jeannette and Eric are married. Uncle Jim dies and Rose Mary comes to Lori to see if she can help her purchase his plot of land back.
Lori becomes a freelance artist and Brian joins the police force. After Maureen graduates from high school she goes to city college but she drops out and begins living with their parents in a squat and working temporarily as a bartender or a waitress. As always, Maureen depends on others to take care of her. Jeannette becomes concerned about Maureen's health when she begins exhibiting eccentric behavior. Her fears are confirmed when Maureen stabs her own mother after Rose Mary tells Maureen to move out of the house.
Maureen is arrested and sentenced to time in a hospital in upstate New York. When she gets out Maureen catches a bus to California without saying goodbye to her family. Jeannette feels guilty for not protecting Maureen the way she had promised. The family doesn't meet up as much after Maureen leaves. That moment changes things for each of them. Brian relocates to Long Island, with his wife and daughter. One day Rex calls Jeannette and asks her to come visit and to bring a gallon of vodka.
Reluctantly, she arrives at their apartment on the Lower East Side where Rex announces that he is dying. Jeannette is unable to imagine life without her father but only two weeks after that visit he has a heart attack and dies, spending his last days hooked up to machines. After Rex dies Jeannette begins to feel restless and unsettled.
She develops a need to always be moving, headed towards someplace instead of being there. A year later she divorces Eric, deciding that neither he nor Park Avenue were the right fit for her.
Maureen's the oddball of the family. She has nightmares. She joins a cult. She stabs Mom, gets put in a mental hospital, and moves to California all by herself. Considering the fact that she grew up sleeping with rats, we'd say she still turned out pretty well. When the Wallses get a visit from child protective services, Mom finds a teaching job. The following summer, Mom goes to Charleston for several weeks to renew her teaching license.
When Mom returns from Charleston, she announces that she will quit her job and devote all her time to art. Jeannette finally confronts Mom and Dad about their selfishness, but Dad whips her in retaliation. In the end, Jeannette secures Lori a summer babysitting job that includes a bus ticket to New York City as payment.
Jeannette moves to the city a year later and finishes high school there, interning at a Brooklyn newspaper for credit. Brian follows a year later. Jeannette starts college at Barnard, putting herself through with grants, loans, and savings from odd jobs. Maureen moves in with Lori at age twelve.
After being kicked out of several apartments, Mom and Dad first live on the streets, and then become squatters. At this point, Jeannette has married and works at a prestigious magazine.
Lori is an artist, and Brian is a police officer. Maureen drops out of college and moves in with Mom and Dad. Maureen tries to stab Mom, and must spend a year in a psychiatric hospital. Jeannette's older sister Lori confronted their grandmother and the altercation turned physical.
Instead of defending Lori, Rex reprimanded his daughter but the family was kicked out regardless. As Rex Woody Harrelson indicates in the movie, the title "The Glass Castle" refers to his dream house, which he literally described as being a glass castle. Like in the film, he carried the blueprints for the castle with him and promised the children it would someday be their home.
Perhaps the closest he came to it is when he moved the family into a small rotting home that had enough land to fit his castle. The Glass Castle true story reveals that the rotting home Rex Walls moved his family into indeed had no indoor plumbing or electricity. The only money coming in was from odd jobs that Rex found and sporadic checks from an oil company that leased a piece of property their mother Rose Mary owned.
To avoid starving, the children turned to dumpster diving. As a child, the real Jeannette Walls left was forced to dumpster dive in order to survive. Not exactly, though he's intended to be a streamlined version of her real-life boyfriend at the time, Eric Goldberg who she ended up marrying. Born and raised on Park Avenue, Goldberg contradicted her own alcoholic father and impoverished upbringing.
In this sense, he correlates to Max Greenfield's wealthy accountant character David in the movie, despite the character being polished with fiction to play up the contrasting worlds. Jeannette was trying to cook her own hot dogs on the stovetop when the gas flame caught her dress on fire. Her mother, who was too busy painting to make her lunch, ran in and wrapped her in a blanket. A neighbor drove them to the hospital, where Jeannette was placed on a bed of ice.
She remained in the hospital for several days recovering from her burns until her father showed up and took her home against the doctor's wishes.
She was soon back to cooking hot dogs by herself. As conveyed in the movie, Jeannette's mother was a licensed teacher. However, Rose Mary Walls never kept a teaching job because she'd rather be painting and felt that teaching was a betrayal of her true calling. Her children often had to beg her to go to work in the morning. Jeannette's father Rex had been in the Air Force and was a skilled laborer, though due to alcoholism, insubordination, and other reasons, he could never hold onto a job for longer than six months.
He often found himself caught up in get-rich-quick schemes. Frustrated that she had to force herself to work as a teacher at times, Rose Mary occasionally expressed to her children that life would be far easier if she didn't have to care for them. Rose Mary Walls left is pictured in
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