The Glass Castle: The Wall's Life In Poverty

The Wall’s Life in Poverty Poverty is a serious problem in the world. In the memoir, The Glass castle, there are many ways on why they lived in poverty. The Walls family’s life in poverty never improved much because Rex used the little money they did have on things they didn’t need, such as building a gold mining machine, gambling, and drinking excessively. Rex Walls would came up with ideas like a gold mining machine, which like his other projects, but those ideas never lead anywhere. He called this machine the Prospector, it had a big flat surface about four feet high and six feet wide, and it rose up in the air at an angle. The surface was covered with horizontal strips of wood separated by gaps. The gold mining machine would scoop up dirt and rocks and sift them through the maze of wooden strips. The machine would separate gold nuggets from it weight. When the prospector didn’t plan out and no gold had been found, Rex had pawned valuable things like his wife’s wedding ring. Rex also promised to replace his wife’s wedding ring once he found
From his drinking problem, he was making very bad choices in life like stealing his daughter’s money from a piggy bank, which they named OZ, they have been saving for quite some time. He would wait till his wife, Rosemary, got paid for teaching, and take the money to go out and drink. Rex was so bad while drinking, he would not think or care if his family had food on the table or a roof over their head. His drinking would result in him loosing many good paying jobs. Many times when Rex was drinking heavily he would become very aggressive towards his family, especially his wife Rose Mary. As Rex’s drunkenness worsens his daughter Jeannette is losing hope in her father and even asks her mother to leave him in hope for a better