Case Study on Rose Mary Wall from The Glass Castle Movie

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Movie: The Glass Castle
Character: Rose Mary Wall
Comprehensive Assessment /Summary
 Who is this person? Rose, wife to Wall, appears to be the main actor in the movie The
Glass Castle as everything in the film seems to revolve around her or her relationships
with either the family or the outsiders. She has four children.
 What has he/she done in his/her life? She has been a lackluster mother and wife, with
her main passion being painting. The father of her children was an abusive and an
irresponsible husband. Physical and psychological abuse is correlated with the likelihood
of a person to becoming neglectful of his or her responsibilities (Browne, 2009). As a
mother, the abuse may have played a part in the mom being unable to do anything for
herself or the family. The father kept the family moving all over the country to escape
debtors, and the children were kept sane through promises from the dad that he will
one day build a glass castle for them. Rose Wall is happy to tag along the father and the
children and they run all over the country and she ends up in the streets.
 What brought him/her to this situation and service intervention? Rose Mary Wall’s
attitude of free spirit coupled with prolonged abuse may have contributed to her
current state of being homeless (Browne, 2009). She has convinced herself that living in
the streets and eating leftovers is the only life worth living.
 What are the opportunities for these goals and aspirations to be achieved? She still
has a chance to achieve all her aspirations as long as she can overcome the

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disillusionment. Mary Wall as her heart at the right place in that she believes it is
immoral to waste all that food. If she could be helped thinking widely for instance as she
deals with her life she thinks on how to organize a bigger group to go to hotels and
convince the management to offer them the food remains to feed a bigger group of
homeless people, she would find satisfaction (Kottler, Carlson, & Englar-Carlson, 2013).
When her daughter, Jeanette takes her to a big hotel so that they can have a meal, she
eats comfortably meaning that she is not averse to people eating in big hotels. However,
she believes it is not right for people to eat and waste so much food when the same can
be put to better use in feeding the less fortunate.
 What are the barriers to these goals and aspirations? The family forms the largest
barrier to Jeanette’s achievement of her goals and aspirations. Jeanette has been the
bedrock of her family since she realized that her mother was so harassed by the
husband that she could barely function and escaped from reality through painting. Also,
she took over the role of the father in the family as the dad proved to be irresponsible
and only good at drinking, lying and running away from debtors. The family. The family
will prevent her from achieving her goals and aspirations in two ways. First, they might
feel that they still need her and that she does not need to have her own family as she
already has one. Secondly, she is so disillusioned with life, and it is serving as a blockage
that she is psychologically not able to push through and pursue her goals and
aspirations.