Final Reflection

                In the beginning I had little expectations for this book. I relied on what others thought of it to select the memoir. I believed that this book was going to be hard to read and there were going to be many sad or disturbing scenes that were to be expected. I thought the title “The Glass Castle” could be referring to her house or household shattering since glass was fragile. I also thought the main theme of this book was about her family and her family’s issues. Besides what I wrote in my first blog post I did think that the book was going to make me pity her and make me feel bad for her a majority of the time. When I actually read the book I found I did not pity her, I rather found her life interesting and saw how she developed as a character. Pity did play in a few times when her issues seemed quite extreme but her life was much more inspirational rather than sad.

                I did find I needed to take pauses in the book, for there were many sad or depressing scenes. When compared to other memoirs read in class, or those that I’ve read on my own, is very different but yet still similar. You notice how the protagonist, or the person (in most cases) writing the memoir, over comes the issues and challenges that were present to them in the begging of the novel. In this case for Jeannette it was going to New York and finding her own “Glass Castle”.