In The'The Glass Castle,' a memoir, by Jeannette Walls she tells the story of her and her family. The WallsWalls' family is constantly short onof food and money and are always moving around the country because Rex can not keep a job. In the first half of the novel, the family liveslive in the desert. The father, Rex Walls tells his children that once he makes thebecomes a prospector and finds gold, in the desert, he will build the family a house called ‘The Glass Castle,’ for them. When the Wall’sWalls' have nowhere else to go, they decide to move in with Erma, Rex's mother, in Welch until they have enough money to get their own house. Soon after the family gets their house in Welch, the house starts falling apart. Jeannette does not want to live with her parents anyoneanyway and she decides to save money for a bus ticket to New York. Jeanette's siblings move to New York soon after her and the parents follow them. A main topic shown through the novel is poverty/social class.