I believe forgiveness
is the most important theme. Throughout the unfolding of The Glass Castle, each
character must come to grips with the concept of forgiving each other. Rose Mary
and Rex neglect their children in so many ways and should be punished, but the
kids always forgive them and they never get in trouble for their actions. Rose
Mary forgives Rex when he cheats on and abuses her, but because he never gets
punished he will continue to do what he pleases. As forgiveness is usually a
good thing to do it also seems to be what will eventually ruin the family. No person
(not even a member of the Walls family) can mentally handle being hurt repeatedly
by the same person forever.
I really enjoy this post. It has a very strong way of wording foregiveness is an important theme throughout this book, because you gave a strong detailed response to it. It helped the reader understand alot better when you described how Rose Mary learns to forgive Rex for messing up alot, and how the kids forgive them as well for not being the ideal parents a child would need. I also like how you expanded but saying that eventually the people in the book will end up being mentally hurt by being hurt more then once by the same person, it starts to give us another outlook on the book.
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