The Glass Castle

The style that Jeannette Walls uses in "The Glass Castle," is interesting because of the way she describes her parents lifestyle. She uses short, concise sentences to emphasize how serious she was about the way her parents lived with so little. For instance, her parents telling her and her siblings not to believe in Christmas because they could not afford the same luxurious presents that the other children were receiving from "Santa Claus". She also uses a very serious tone in her dialogue with her mother, especially when they are at lunch together and Jeannette tells her mother that she had seen her sorting through a dumpster the night before. She makes it clear that she is embarassed by her mother and offers to help, because she now had more money than she ever did growing up. I really liked the way the memoir is written because you can sense the embarassment and seriousness in Walls' writing style, and it cheers the reader up to know that she has come from such a feeble background to become such a great success.