The Glass Castle

What makes a functional family:

Being able to spend time with family, and enjoying the presence of everybody. Not having to argue about every little thing and having to disagree about much either. Being functional is what any family wants to be that many families fall short in.

What makes a dysfunctional family:

A dysfunctional family, is a broken home, not even feeling comfortable around people you grew up with or around all your life. A lot of name calling and always having a feeling like you want to run away from it all. Felling low and not even wanting to figure out why. Always angry for no apparent reason. Being in a dysfunctional family hurts, it bothers, it strays a person away. A lot of families can be dysfunctional at times.

A lot of families have a tendency of being both functional and dysfunctional. My family isn't the best family and there are a lot of times where we weren't the happiest and there were times where the love could not be broken by anybody. What family doesn't argue, doesn't diagree. I believe every family can be a bit of both aspects.

The family in The Glass Castle I wouldn't say is dysfunctional or functional. The way there are are comfortable for them. That is the way they lived, and I believe it just all depends on how a person lived in their certain family. What one may think is dysfunctional, may very much be as functional as just having a family dinner or something. Dysfunctional or functional; at the end of the day there is still a family in it.