Comparison Essay between "In a Glass House" and "Where She Has Gone"

Destiny Destroyed by Dysfunctional Family
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) When family members experience emotional and physical difficulty, the family bond may be disrupted causing sever consequences that may affect one in an appalling way. Nino Ricci's In a Glass House and Where She Has Gone, pursue the dismal breakdown of the relationship between Vittorio and his family that result s in attempted suicide and running away from family and reality. Children that are abandoned by their family, live a life in misery and destruction. Family abuse can cause a child's personality to change, in most cases in a bad way. Vittorio in In A Glass House, a young boy, is abandoned due to his mother's death, and is later isolated by his sister and father. …