Rex Walls Vs. Chris Garner : Battle of the Deadbeats

As most of you don't know, this blog is for a school assignment, which means most of which I have to post on here will not be worth reading. The subjects I am told to compare today are none other than the father's of apparently "real life stories" . Rex Walls is the father of the author Jeanette Walls in her novel The Glass Castle, and Chris Garner is the father in the film The Pursuit of Happiness. Now I'm sure most of you have seen the movie rather than read the other novel, because a majority of the population attends to blockbuster events rather than sitting at home reading books. The characteristics of these two characters have come across as "suburban heroes " if you will, but i am here to shed light on a new aspect. They're deadbeats. Throughout the novel The Glass Castle there are many example of the fathers' failures, careless acts, and abuse against the family. He comes home drunk a frequent amount, he takes away any permanent residence they have ever had, he deprives his children of personal possesions, and he leaves his wife thirsty for the love that they once had. The same pretty much goes for Chris Garner as well. He deprives his son of sleep, of his mother, as well as a place of rest. Both these fathers are not capable of housing a family and make up excuses to hide their shame. Time and time again in The Glass Castle Jeanette is the only one who does not see through the lies of her father, and is usually the only one believing him. she is still under the illusion that he is going to invent one of the things he keeps talking about building. Yet he usually comes home intoxicated that night. She probably still thinks that he is going to build the glass castle one day. Except the last time that happened the hole for the foundation became a garbage dump over time. In The Pursuit of Happiness, Chris Garner has the same trouble admitting defeat. He invested all his money into an entrepaneurial business that has went downhill since it started, and his inability to sell his product, and the way he took that was a contributing factor in making his wife leave him. Face it : both these men have failed as husbands, dads, and friends, and their mistakes should not be taken lightly.