![]() Jeanette discovers that a home can also be – or perhaps even must also involve – a community, such as her school newspaper or her parents’ group of New York squatters. A home is not only a physical place, like Jeannette’s Park Avenue apartment in New York. ![]() However, the book resists settling on any one definition of home. It is something she must help to build herself. It is something she must work to forge rather than relying on romantic models. ![]() Yet part of her process of maturing involves understanding that a home is not an ideal. Constantly on the run from bill collectors or minor run-ins with the law, Jeannette’s family finds shelter in houses and towns across the country, while Jeannette continues to seek the one place where she can feel most “at home.” In The Glass Castle, this search mirrors Jeannette’s process of growing up: Jeannette idealizes her grandmother’s house in Phoenix, for example, as well as her father’s plans for the Glass Castle. ![]()
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