The Glass Castle Questions and Answers
How is a stick of margarine a symbol within the Walls' lives in The Glass Castle?
What Is The Joshua Tree And What Does It Symbolize?
What is Jeanette's physical appearance in The Class Castle?
Why is the Tinkerbell doll symbolic of Jeanette and her experience in her home in The Glass Castle?
What are some examples of irony in The Glass Castle?
What does Jeannette's fascination with watches represent in The Glass Castle?
How does Rex “lose” Jeannette, as she puts it? In other words, what is the breaking point between them that makes Jeannette start planning to leave Welch?
What are the positive lessons that Jeannette Walls learned from her parents in The Glass Castle?
What are three significant things that impact Jeannette's life in The Glass Castle?
What is the quality of education in Battle Mountain in The Glass Castle?
What figurative language is in "Mom had grown up in the desert. She loved the dry, crackling heat" from page 21 of The Glass Castle? How do you know? What does this language tell you about the desert and Jeannette's mother?
What are some ways in which Jeanette is independent?
Describe the family’s escapades to collect money in The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.
How is Rose Mary’s immaturity used to show how parenting impacts a child’s development in The Glass Castle?
What would you say is the overall tone of The Glass Castle?
How do the settings of The Glass Castle relate to the themes of the story?
In what ways does The Glass Castle support and/or challenge American stereotypes of persons living in poverty or not?
What is the most vivid of Jeannette's early memories in The Glass Castle?
Who are the members of the Walls family in The Glass Castle?
Discuss guilt and redemption in The Glass Castle.
How do Jeannette, Lori, and Brian each react to Mom's meltdown near the end of the school year?
What is a major symbol in The Glass Castle from pages 168–188?
What are some symbols in The Glass Castle?
In The Glass Castle, how does the protagonist's life in Welch compare to Battle Mountain and Phoenix?
Are Jeannette's justifications for her father's behavior and her mother's neglect valid or has she been taught to believe in a false reality?
How does Rex's parenting in The Glass Castle lead to the children becoming independent? What does Rex do, or not do, that leads to the children to become independent?
Choose one static character to discuss in The Glass Castle. How or why does he/she not make a change? How did that character's role affect the plot and/or other characters?
What are some examples of irony in The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls?
In The Glass Castle, where did Jeanette go to college?
How does Jeannette Walls use the tone of her memoir to comment on social issues such as poverty?
The Glass Castle is Jeannette's memoir. How would the story be different if told by one of her siblings? What would their side of the story be like?
In her memoir The Glass Castle, besides the obvious financial barriers, what other types of obstacles did Jeannette Walls need to overcome in order to achieve her goal of getting into college?
Do Jeanette Walls circumstances cause her to change throughout her story? How does she change in The Glass Castle?
Regarding the fact that the Walls' children grew up to be quite successful and well-adjusted adults, how did their upbringing have an influence? Do Rex and Rose Mary deserve any of the credit?
How could Jeanette's mother's knowledge of and attitude toward the natural world be characterized in The Glass Castle?
What are some themes in the memoir "The Glass Castle" ?
In The Glass Castle, in what way does Jeannette's life in Welch shape her late childhood and early adolescence?
How do Jeannette and her siblings tolerate abuse?
Why doesn't the principal believe mary's assertion that her children are gifted ?
What is the impact of parenting on the characters in the Glass Castle? How does this them affect the characters in the Glass Castle?
Di you think that jeannette and rex's relationship would be different if he wasn't an alcoholist?
Why does Jeannette not like her teeth?
What are some quotes about standing up for yourself in The Glass Castle?
What symbols are in The Glass Castle? Are they archetypal images?
Would Rex be considered successful?
Aside from both being unfit and lacking any remorse for their actions, can you please compare and contrast Rex and Rose Mary as parents?
Has the parents' neglect of the children made them weaker or stronger?
What could the Joshua tree symbolize?
How would I break down The Glass Castle, for a short summary of a page?
Obviously, Rex bullies Rose Mary, but is there some deeper reason that she is unable to say "no" to him even after she gets a job at Lori's school?
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