R: As I've began reading I have found a pretty big similarity between Rex Walls and my own dad. Not on an extreme level to where "the angry-eyed stranger" comes out but just similarities in their attitudes. Rex seemed to have lived a strange life just as Jeanette is living now and probably disagreed with the normal systems of education. My dad never finished college and just like Rex still manages to be a genius in things like fixing what has been broken. Rex invents things and my dad creates things. Rex speaks of a day, when he finally finishes work on his "Prospector", (a machine which will filter through rocks and locate gold) where they will become rich and he will build a "Glass Castle" in the desert where they all can live. My dad wants to build a house with glass walls too. He wants to build it in Florida where he is living right now and build it from the floor up. This will all happen the second he begins buying and renovating apartments where he will strike it rich. It's just shocking to me that their goals are so similar. I also believe that Jeanette and I see our fathers in the same way (or at least in at this point in her life I don't know if her feelings change as she grows older). I idolize my father in the same way that she does at such a young age. Just like Jeanette it wouldn't matter to me wether or not the "Glass Castle" ever does get built or if the crazy stories of his life are really as interesting as he makes them out to be, because I will always believe in him and if nothing else I will always did have a pretty epic bedtime story.
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