Alcohol Abuse In The Glass Castle By Rex Walls

The Glass Castle is about a girl who tells the events of her childhood past and how dysfunctional her family was, especially her father Rex Walls. Jeanette’s father, Rex Walls is a drunk and sometimes abusive to his family. He drinks all the time to escape reality. Rex has been drinking since he was a teenager. He is a prime example of an everyday drunk who takes any opportunity to get alcohol.
I think the reason he became a drunk was because of his mother. She was probably abusing him sexually as a child .He never went to a therapist to talk about the abuse so he doesn’t know how to cope with it. He just turns to alcohol to forget about what he had to deal with at home. Jeanette and her siblings used to look to their father, but as they got older they realized how unreliable and
It didn’t work though because he found it and took it. Jeanette notices that the money is gone and she tells Lori. They are both upset that their father took the money. Jeanette confronts him about the money and he denies it. She knows that he is lying which hurts her even more that he just lied to her. I think that Rex should have gone to therapy and rehab. If he had gone then he wouldn’t have become an alcoholic and he could have been alive to this day. I guess back then he felt like he didn’t need help and that he could deal with it by himself. Which isn’t true because look what happened afterwards. It’s what’s wrong with certain people now days. They have too much pride and don’t want to seem weak when things like that happen to them. They feel embarrassed or ashamed about it so they won’t tell anyone about it. Since Rex is a guy he feels embarrassed because the world makes it seem like its only girls who get raped or molested. If a guy was to get molested or raped then people don’t seem to care as