Glass castle people

Ernie Goad

Jeannette and Brian outsmart this character and his relentless gang by building a catapult and using a mattress to pelt rocks at them from their window and knock the gang off their bikes

Erma

Jeannette and Lori called this character a "pervert" and attacked him/her to protect Brian. The actions of this character made Jeannette and Lori wonder if the character abused Rex as well.

Miss Katona

This Welch High employee disapproves of Jeanette's plan to leave Welch to attend college in NYC. This character's questioning inspires Jeannette to leave earlier and finish high school in NYC.

Rex

This character "got into a fight with a mountain" and asked Jeannette to stitch up their arm one night.

Miss Bivens

This character encouraged Rex to enter his work in a writing contest and convinced him to get his diploma after he tried to dropout of high school.

Brian

This character fights to protect Jeanette in Welch when Dinitia Hewitt and her gag bully and beat up Jeanette

Grandma Smith

This character forced Rose Mary to get her teaching license in case her art career failed which put a strain on their relationship most of Rose Mary's life.

Eric

This character gave Jeannette a comfortable life, but one that she never quite fit into. The death of her father helped Jeannette have a revelation about her future with this character.

Maureen

This character kept having reoccurring nightmares of scary men in Halloween masks in Phoenix and of Rufus the rat trying to eat the character. When Jeannette called this character silly and flicked on the light, sure enough, the rat was on his/her bed.

Lori

This character sobbed after getting glasses in Phoenix and realizing what they have been missing out on seeing. Getting glasses helped this character see the world in a whole new way

John

This character tells Jeannette that the texture of her scar is interesting and that the scar itself represents that Jeannette is stronger than whatever it was that tried to hurt her.

Dinitia

This character took Jeannette to the public pool in Welch during the non-socially acceptable hours according to the segregation of the town.

Billy Deel

This character took Jeannette to their house to show her their drunk father and make fun of him. This character also compared their dad to Rex which made Jeannette furious as she cannot see her dad's flaws.

Rose Mary

This character yelled at the children for eating margarine in the fridge because supposedly, the margarine was being saved to make bread. Jeannette secretly thought that the character might be saving it for him/herself.