In It, Eddie's mother convinces him that he has multiple illnesses, including severe asthma, which has to be treated with pills and an inhaler. In a pivotal moment in Eddie's development, he discovers that the pills he's been swallowing all along are actually placebo pills.
As a result of this, Eddie's mother Sonia is extremely overprotective of her son. She does not allow him to do many things that the other children do, and always makes sure that he is safe and well-protected. She convinced Eddie that he has several illnesses, so she gave him placebos.
Eddie Kaspbrak is the member of the Loser's Club who has the steadiest family life out of all of them. Eddie is a hypochondriac, which means he is always worried about his health, and his mother, Mrs. Kaspbrak, is always trying to reassure him and make sure he is fine.
Edward "Eddie" Kaspbrak from the Stephen King novel It developed hypochondriac behaviours after a childhood living with his single mother in a situation of Munchausen by proxy.
It (2017): Eddie's mother was smothering him because she was resisting It's influence.
Eddie, obsessed with taking his prescription medications and keeping his hands clean, is the victim of his mother's Munchausen syndrome by proxy, who has kept her son on a strict regimen of pills for his entire life. Eddie, back right, with his fellow Losers.
Kaspbrak has been faking all of Eddie's illnesses in order to have unlimited control over him.
Ben and Beverly often serve as a parallel to Richie and Eddie and Ben's claim still applies–Bill will never love Eddie the way Richie does because of his sexual preference. Eddie loves Richie, but he also very much loves Bill and this love triangle is yet another parallel to Ben and Beverly.
Richie's sexuality
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's only onscreen for a minute, but IT Chapter Two reveals that Eddie Kaspbarak went on to marry a woman exactly like his mother, literally. Of the Losers' Club members, Eddie is often one of the least interested in embarking on dangerous adventures.
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He is also a mentioned character in 11/22/63. He is the oldest of the seven members of The Losers' Club, and the only member Pennywise is afraid of.
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).
Both being interdimensional entities, their powers are at the same level, meaning that the turtle could kill IT if it wanted to. It makes sense that IT is afraid of Maturin – but the viewers and readers also have genuine grounds for cosmic terror.
1 Character: Eddie Kaspbrak Book: IT by Stephen King Psychological disorder: Hypochondriasis is somatoform disorder which are types of disorders when psychological symptoms take a physical form even though no physical causes can be found.
Out loud, Eddie mentions that it was—who else? —Henry Bowers who broke his arm. Beverly remembers this.
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.
One of those attacks resulted in Losers Club member Eddie breaking his arm while trying to get away from It; he is left with a heavy-duty cast, which a bully defaces with a big old "loser." So Eddie attempted a little DIY redecoration, by turning the word into a makeshift "lover."
Greta also wrote LOSER on Eddie's arm cast and then, he later covers the S with a V in red marker, so it then spells LOVER. She is also the one to tell Eddie his medication is a gazebo rather than Mr.
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.
Beverly has become a successful fashion designer in New York City while enduring an abusive marriage to Tom Rogan but later divorces him and marries Ben. James McAvoy as William "Bill" Denbrough: The resourcefully determined former leader of the Losers Club who hunted down and defeated It in the summer of 1989.
Richie has been infatuated with Margot, his adopted sister since childhood. His obsession with her drives his artistic ambitions, as all he paints/draws are portraits of her. His love for her also motivates his life ambitions and helps him become a successful tennis player.
"They put him down, and Richie kissed Eddie's cheek." (pg 1,118) - I believe this is the page where we see Richie accept that he loves Eddie (this is the same page as the "he knew well enough" quote). He gets angry for a lot of reasons: himself, It, Eddie.
Miniseries. Here Alvin is the widowed spouse of the late Elfrida Marsh. Here, he is physically and mentally abusive to Beverly, slapping her when she tries to explain the poem sent to her, and threatening to 'whip the skin off' her when she flees the home.
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.
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.