The Bright Side VS Realistic World

            “Look on the bright side” could not apply more than it does in The Glass Castle. As a young girl, Jeannette Walls was taught to see everything as an adventure. Though she had an alcoholic dad, she was the one to always have faith in him. Her family would go days without eating, weeks without new clothes, and months in a house that would start to fall apart; her parents reminded her that there were other kids out there that had it worse. As she grew up, matured, and saw the world around her, she saw that her family could have it better. Walls was the most supportive of her dad, but was the first one to stand up to him or to even think about living a different way. As the years flew by, it became harder for her to believe in her dad. I believe that she began to have a more realistic view of the world, one where you have to see both sides of the world: the good and the bad.