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