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Eddie In Ernest Hemingway's A View From The Bridge

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When Eddie dies he meets five people in heaven, each person teaches him a valuable lesson. The first person that Eddie meets is The Blue Man, a man that ingested silver nitrate to cure his nerves. Instead of helping, it turned his skin blue, turning him into an outcast, causing him to lose his job, and turn to the Ruby pier sideshow for work. This is how Eddies life interacts with The Blue Man, as Eddie lived close to the pier. When Eddie is young he chases a baseball onto the street, at the same time that The Blue Man is driving. This causes The Blue Man to swerve, which ends up saving Eddie but killing The Blue Man. He teaches Eddie that nothing in life is random, and that every life has a purpose, he teaches this by explaining that good came from his death; the good being …show more content…

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