Rex is actually a great father when he does not drink. The title of the book came from a promise that was made when Jeanette was younger. That one day he will someday build a Glass Castle for his family so they could live in, he carried blueprints with him everywhere so he could show everyone he met what his future consisted. Rex loves his family but causes difficulty for all the children and his wide. He always made them move or he never kept his job for long. His drinking caused much chaos to all of the family members. Since he made his family move He always spent money on alcohol and never came home. Although he is trained as a skilled worker, he rarely holds a job for longer than six months and often gets into trouble by arguing with authority figures.Rex always has projects in mind for getting rich quick, but these never lead anywhere. He occasionally brings in extra money by gambling; at one point he enlists Jeannette in hustling a pool player at a bar by letting the player believe she will provide sexual favors to him. He justifies this by saying he knew Jeannette could take care of herself. Although Rex's contributions to his family have always been erratic, towards the end of the memoir, Rex comes up with $950 for Jeannette's final year at in College.
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