Compare Eddie's Relationship With His Father In The Five People You Meet In Heaven

Eddie’s volatile relationship with his father in “ The Five People You Meet in Heaven” started in his childhood when his father would leave him at Ruby Pier with one of the other employees and return drunk. When Eddie’s mother was sleeping his father would throw Joe and Eddie's toys at the walls and beat Eddie and his brother, yelling about how their toys were a waste of his money. Later, in his adult life Eddie still resents his father for this and when hearing that his father dies he is angry at him. Eddie learns in heaven that holding this anger for his father within him for so long harms himself more than it does anyone else. This makes me think that Eddie resentment for his father and Ruby Pier are connected because they are his father
is the reason he began to work at Ruby Pier. I think that Eddie still wanted affection and the approval of his father even if he did not want to outright say that he did. Eddie had “Begun the ritual of semaphore with his father, forsaking words or physical affection”(Albom,pg.108). This is evident even in Eddie's childhood where he would show his father his greasy fingernails, and when playing baseball would look at his father who would nod at him. Eddie would look for nonverbal cues like the nod of his father’s head in his direction. Eddie later in his life show some forgiveness for his father when he his shows his father who is on his deathbed his greasy fingers nails(Albom,pg.126). Eddie's reactions to what was done to him tell me more about him than what was done to him.