My first impression of The Glass Castle was eye opening. It starts off with this wealthy woman on her way to a fancy event in New York City. She looks out the window of her cab to see her mother digging through the trashcans; shortly after she pulls us back in time as she relives her childhood. Of what I have read so far I see an intelligent father with a rough past causing him to be an alcoholic, a mother who neglects her children by caring more about herself than her family, and a daughter, a little girl who’s parents lead her into catastrophic situations. Somehow, through the good and the bad the children remain to be loyal to their parents and their parents to them. Really just makes you see how far people are willing to go for the people they love. Family is family through good times and bad.