History Literature / TheGlassCastle

* AmbiguousDisorder: Jeannette's mom, Rose Mary. She probably has some sort of Bipolar Disorder going on because on some weeks she's very jovial and giddy, but by the next week she won't even get out of bed while sobbing hysterically. Then, once again, her depression then turns into happiness and vice versa. She also shows plenty of signs of being TheSociopath.

* FunetikAksent: The people of Welch often has this including the principal of Welch Elementary who asks Jeannette "Wuts et tahm sebm?"[[labelnote:Translation]]Eight Times Seven [[/labelnote]] [[PoorCommunicationKills this trope gets her put in Special Needs]]

* FunetikAksent: The people of Welch often has this including the principal of Welch Elementary who asks Jeannette "Wuts et tahm sebm?" [[labelnote:Translation]]Eight Times Seven [[/labelnote]]

* Funetik Aksent: The people of Welch often has this including the principal of Welch Elementary who asks Jeannette "Wuts et tahm sebm?" [[labelnote:Translation]]Eight Times Seven [[/labelnote]]

* Funetik Aksent: The people of Welch often has this including the principal of Welch Elementary who asks Jeannette "Wuts et tahm sebm?" [[labelnote:Translation]]Eight Times Seven [[/labelnote]]]]

* Funetik Aksent: The people of Welch often has this including the principal of Welch Elementary who asks Jeannette "Wuts et tahm sebm?" [[labelnote:Translation]]Eight Times Seven

* Funetik Aksent: The people of Welch often has this including the principal of Welch Elementary who asks Jeannette "Wuts et tahm sebm [[labelnote:Translation]Eight Times Seven

* Funetik Aksent: The people of Welch often has this including the principal of Welch Elementary who asks Jeannette "Wuts et tahm sebm [[labelnote:ProbableTranslation]]Eight Times Seven

* OverProtectiveDad: Zig-zagged with Rex. One moment he'd be willing to kick ass for his children if he thought they were in any trouble, while other times he doesn't even give a shit that his daughter may get raped in the next room by three men.

''The Glass Castle'' is a 2005 memoir written by Jeannette Walls detailing her childhood being raised by her dysfunctional parents, Rex and Rose Mary alongside her siblings, Lori, Brian, and Maureen. The Walls Family lives in perpetual poverty due to Rex's alcoholism and Rose's refusal to get a job, with the children often practically caring for one another.

* AbusiveParents: While both parents for the most part avoided physically harming their children out of anger at their full capacities, Rex caused quite a bit commotion every time he came home drunk and destroyed the house. Rose Mary also found herself in slumps every now and then in Welch, which occasionally constituted to her throwing things at her children. Also their methods of parenting go beyond being extremely questionable, and as stated above, the children ended up taking care of themselves throughout their childhood far more than their parents did.

* AllMenArePerverts: At least seven males had sexually molested Jeannette. All of them older than her.

** It's implied that Rex's mom was sexually abusive towards him as a kid.

* AdultFear: This book should be called ''Adult Fear: The Novel.''

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Doubles as DysfunctionalFamily. There is no part in the book where the Walls family has really stability and security. And when they get a taste of it, it doesn't long.