Rose Mary and Rex Wall’s free-spirited way of life regularly caused tension in their everyday lives, and more importantly in their relationships with their children. While reading The Glass Castle it’s clear that the pairs parenting leaves a lot to be desired. They both seem to refuse to see how their addiction to an adventurous lifestyle may impede their children. Despite their faults, the two do manage to impart some meaningful lessons to their children along the way. But the lessons they teach are typically undermined by the harmful way they are taught. One of the many examples of Rex and Rose Mary’s harmful way of teaching lessons plays out in the house Grandma Smith leaves Rose Mary. For a while things seem to be going well for the family despite their odd and even occasionally dangerous neighbors. But eventually, Rose Mary and Rex’s parenting choices ended up costing their children yet again. The two’s stubborn refusal to close the front and back door, along with the windows, so they could air out the house, has adverse consequences for at least two of the four children. …show more content…
This was causing Jeannette’s youngest sibling, Maureen, to have frequent nightmares about people coming into their house to get them. On one particular occasion, one of the perverts from the neighborhood made his way into the room where Lori and Jeannette were sleeping and attempts to molest her. Her immediate response was to take action. She shouts, drawing the attention of her protective brother, who runs in carrying a hatchet. The two managed to scare off the pervert easily enough but, they aren't satisfied with that. They set off on a “pervert