The Glass Castle

When I was first reading this book, I keep asking myself "What is the Glass Castle?", and why is it important. The Glass Castle, I find out, is a dream. It is a dream by Rex Walls, the father, to build a house made of glass in the desert for the family. This house is completely made out of glass and be able to sustain a modern family with solar cells and a water purification system. To fund this, he plans to get rish by inventing and using the "Prospector", a device intended to efficiently gather gold. Only problem is the family has no money. Therefore they drift from place to place; constantly having to run from debts and find jobs. This can't be the most ideal lives for 3 children to have to experience, but they can live through it. Jeanette had a childhood that I never experienced. The main reason is that she retained an amazing amount of detail about her childhood. I can hardly remember my own.