Rex Walls & Chris Gardener Comparison

In the film Pursuit of Happiness, the character Chris Gardener is role played by Will Smith who is a kind, caring and sentimental sales man struggling to make a living and to make it in a company for a steady job and a steady salary for the sake of his family. In the novel The Glass Castle, the character Rex Walls is a kind, caring, psychotic and dysfunctional father who spends his time searching for odd jobs, attempting to create inventions and spending most of their money on alcohol. The first major similarity is that both of them are fathers who are kind and non abusive towards there own respected families, through out both of there difficult quest for a better a life they both work hard for the sake of there families' future, struggling to find a big break. Will Smith's goal is a much more of a realistic and common goal, which is to land a proper and steady job that pays a good salary in order for a better life. Rex Walls' goal is very much like a pirate searching for hidden treasure, he constantly is attempting to create inventions that can make him rich and also look for gold that can make rich, which forced his family to be nomadic, because of the debts.  Another similarity between the two is that they both tell many lies for themselves or for there families' benefit, in other words they are both dishonest. The difference between the two are also as great as the similarities in both, the first major difference is that compared to Chris Gardener, Rex Walls is very self absorbed and spends most of the cash he earns on alcohol instead of finding a proper job to support his family properly, while Chris Gardener utilizes his utmost best effort in his job and in his quest to move up in a steady career, and does not spend his earnings recklessly. Another difference is Chris Gardener is more caring and cautious for his child, while Rex Walls less caring because of his reckless behavior towards his children, meaning the danger he places them in and calls them life lessons. In  the end both fathers love there children and have similarities but looking at the overall comparison it is safe to say that Chris Gardner is the overall better and responsible parent and is what you would call a normal father.