As Jeanette Walls reveals her childhood story, she spares few if any details, much less the flaws she finds in his father. As the reader enters the scene of her earliest memories, her mother's irrational thought process is instantly brought to light. A little girl catches fire while trying to cook hot dogs. Who will help him? His mother took him to the emergency room and his serious burns were treated. However, when the rest of his family enters the picture, the complexity of his confusing story intensifies. With neglected siblings and parents with bizarre morals, a complex family architecture emerges. A structure revolving around Jeanette's parents' distrust of authority figures and contempt for societal norms. After almost six weeks in the hospital, the family decides to examine Jeanette "the Rex-Walls way" and Rex runs out of the hospital with his little girl in his arms towards the idling car waiting with the rest of the family inside (14). As their epic tale of a devious nomadic lifestyle unfolds, the intense bond between Jeanette and her father becomes unmistakable. She is the classic daddy's little girl and relishes the little adventures she has with her father as well as the fantastical daydreams about the development of their ever-elusive Glass Castle. However, she is slowly torn away from her impeccable view of the monster-killing father she idolizes as her serious alcohol addiction surfaces. This harsh reality takes its first shock when the young boy, Billy Deel, shows Jeanette his father passed out and soiled by drunkenness, then claims the similarity of their fathers by saying "I know your daddy is nothing else than a drunkard like mine” (83). This ...... middle of paper ......diseases concludes in the book Jeanette accepts the belief of some people enjoying life in a different way. While learning to dance between turbulence and order from a young age, their lives were severely affected by their father's affliction. Their nomadic life could have continued in its state of bliss and fantasy as long as the balance was maintained between order and turbulence. However, with mental illness on the mother's part rendering her incapable of stability, the father's addiction was the weight that kept the family in its downward spiral. Without this means of escape chosen by Rex, a different life would have happened to the children of the Wall family and although it would never have been ideal or picturesque, they could have continued in a happy and fanciful way. Works CitedWalls, Jeanette. "The Glass Castle"