Motif in The Glass Castle

In the novel The Glass Castle, the title relates to the family in the story. The Walls’ family moves around a lot, which relates to glass because they have no protection from the world, and they are always being watched. Glass is also breakable and fragile, the family fights and they don’t always agree so at any moment they could shatter. The dad’s big dreams were always running threw the kids minds and weren’t always done: “When Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do.” In this the dad is telling stories to his kids about himself and they are about all these great things he’s done and is going to do. This relates to the title because a castle is mostly in fairy tales and his dreams are like fairy tales, they don’t always come true. This author relates the title of the novel with her family in different ways.