Well, my opinion is that she's so protective because she lost two people she loves. She lost her husband (we never see Eddie's dad in the movie) to a disease. Which she deals with by giving Eddie pills and making him be incredibly careful about germs. Because she wanted to keep him safe.
Born in 1916, Sonia Kaspbrak is the overweight, domineering mother of Eddie Kaspbrak. Her husband, Eddie's father, died of cancer in 1951, and since then Sonia has kept Eddie on a short physical and psychological leash, almost to the point of deliberately weakening him to maximize her level of control.
At first glance, you might just assume Eddie Kaspbrak is naturally neurotic and a classic hypochondriac but the reason behind his constant anxiety when it comes to his health stems much deeper than that. Unfortunately, Eddie is a victim of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy with his own mother as the abuser.
It turns out though that this was done to better reflect Stephen King's intent for the two characters. In the IT book, Eddie's wife is said to be a mirror image of his mother, who had passed away several years before Pennywise's battle with the adult losers.
In It: Chapter 2, the actress who plays Myra, Eddie's wife, is the same actress who plays Eddie's mother in Chapter 1, which goes along with the book in that he marries a woman just like his overprotective mother.
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Did Richie have a crush on Eddie it?
We learn that Richie Tozier, the fast-talking, foul-mouthed teenager (played by Finn Wolfhard) who grew up to be a popular stand-up comedian (Bill Hader) is gay and has been secretly in love with his friend and fellow club member Eddie Kaspbrak (played as an adult by James Ransone).
In the adaptation of It Chapter Two, Richie is portrayed as being secretly in love with Eddie Kaspbrak until the latter's death, and Eddie remained unaware of these feelings.
She saw the night Eddie met his one true love — a girl in a yellow dress whose name was Marguerite — and how they danced to a big band at the Stardust Band Shell.
He was seldom proud of Eddie, only when he physically fixed a maintenance problem. He was also a belligerent drunk and beat Eddie and Joe; he was neglectful and he ceased talking to Eddie when he came home from the war. Eddie feels his father destroyed him in three ways: neglect, silence and violence.
She lost her husband (we never see Eddie's dad in the movie) to a disease. Which she deals with by giving Eddie pills and making him be incredibly careful about germs. Because she wanted to keep him safe. She didn't want to lose him like she lost his father.
To put it bluntly, the blood Bev sees is period blood. She is afraid of going through puberty and becoming a woman. She fears this because of her abusive, misogynistic father and the fact that boys and men already sexualize her.
Malformed and oozing, the leper represents Eddie's greatest fear: infectious disease. His phobia seems to stem from a mental illness his mother suffers from known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy, which manifests in her relentless “worrying” about his health.
Eddie's father dies from pneumonia, which he caught while saving his friend Mickey Shea during an ocean storm. He represents extreme male aggression and toughness.
As a child that same July, Eddie was doing errands at the pharmacy when Mr. Keene asked him to come to the back room and there revealed to him that his asthma medicine is a placebo. Eddie's "asthma" is psycho-semantic and its symptoms are perpetuated by his overbearing mother and his insecure personality.
In the novel, it can be assumed that Richie suffers from Tourette syndrome as he is described to not have much control of the things he says or when he says them. However, his hyperactivity seems to have been toned down in the 2017 adaptation.
That night, Eddie's father began yelling at him, as he used to. He screamed at Eddie to get up and get a job. But when his father raised his fist to hit him, Eddie grabbed his arm and stopped him for the first time in his life. Eddie's father in The Five People You Meet in Heaven never spoke to him again.
The Captain confesses that he shot Eddie in the leg to prevent Eddie from chasing the shadow into the fire. This saved Eddie's life despite leaving him with a lifelong severe limp. Eddie then learns how the Captain died: he stepped on a land mine that would have killed all the men had he not set it off.
Ruby : Eddie, anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.
Molly Atkinson reprises her role as Sonia, Eddie's Munchausen syndrome by proxy-stricken mother, and also plays Eddie's wife Myra, who is very similar to Sonia.
But to make things even more heart-wrenching, the Duffer Brothers have now revealed Eddie's final words were improvised by actor Joseph Quinn. Writing on Twitter, they attached a picture of Eddie and Dustin with cameras in the background, as the writers revealed: '“I love you, man” was improvised by Joe. '
Eddie never met Ruby during his life, as she was much older and they weren't directly related, but the amusement park where Eddie works all his life, Ruby Pier, was built for Ruby by her husband. Ruby feels connected to Eddie, as she was present in the shared hospital room when Eddie's father died.
Richie loved Eddie, and kept that with him his entire adult life, and now he's lost him. In hindsight, it makes sense, as Richie was always closest to Eddie, and it's possible his rampant sexual jokes about women as a kid were just an attempt to disguise his true feelings.
Well, the simple answer would be an emphatic no. As was demonstrated in IT Chapter One, the pair were close in the book — with Richie even going on to kiss Eddie on the cheek following his sacrifice. However, there was nothing to imply that their dynamic was anything but a deep friendship.
Richie was the most light-hearted member of the Losers' Club. The fear and terror didn't take control of him like it did the others. Richie had the nickname, "Trashmouth," for his constant use of foul language. That mouth frequently got him in troubles with adults and bullies in town, like Henry Bowers.
