The Glass Castle - End

I honestly do not know what to say about the Glass Castle. While generally there was a happy ending (which is depressingly rare in the real world) when things finally seemed to be looking up, poor Maureen was slipping through the cracks. Personally I feel, because she was the youngest, she should have been the primary concern, way before her parents who have had their entire lives and millions of opportunities to straighten out their lives. I was sick of the parents showing up and bringing their children down after they had established better lives for themselves. When they finally got a place of their own off the streets, they still managed to let one of their kids unhealthily become mentally damaged to the point that she winds up stabbing her own mother.
Throughout the story I really felt that it was the mother fanning the flames to all the families problems. I agreed with Jeannette's statement that their father would be fine if he just had a strong women who didn't let him push her around. Not only did the mother not do anything to help Rex overcome his drinking problem, but she aided to it. When Rex had finally managed to stay clean and sober for a while, his wife pressured him to rejoin her on the streets where, everyone knew, he would not be able to stay on the waggon.
By the end I still wonder how Maureen ever made out in California, if she was able to pull herself together by getting away.
All in all I find it both inspiring and astonishing that for the most part the members of that positively corrupt family made it out okay and are all living relatively normal happy lives.