Neat-Cold-7235 t1_j69tktw wrote on January 28, 2023 at 8:02 PM

Reply to comment by Avaunt in I’m finish up reading “The Glass Castle”, and my blood is boiling. by Avaunt

Exactly that’s what hurt is knowing he wanted to be a good dad but he couldn’t. And I know he had childhood trauma and even tho he was a better dad then his mom was to him, I also know that generational trauma is hard to break because that’s all he knows. He wanted to be a good dad but didn’t know how to and felt like he needed alcohol probably to cover up the childhood PTSD. The mom on the other hand I feel like had narcissistic personality disorder and couldn’t give a shit about her kids or their well being.

Avaunt OP t1_j6a1hn5 wrote on January 28, 2023 at 8:57 PM

Yeah. I don’t understand the mom at all. Narcissism, bipolar, and hoarding disorders maybe? The dad have a lot of humanity along with the demons of addiction. The mom, on the other hand, was constantly either self absorbed or completely off the wall.

MelaphantMorada t1_j6be05b wrote on January 29, 2023 at 3:02 AM

I wonder since this is from the author’s perspective that perhaps if she wasn’t as close to her mom as she was to her father (although both were pretty bad parents) that maybe that’s why she doesn’t come off as fully fleshed out as the dad where we see both the good and the bad and could almost empathize with him despite the terrible behavior