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Summer has been and gone, and school started up once again. Eddie served my father and I dinner in the kitchen. I had seen Eddie's dissatisfaction growing over the months. He clearly didn't want to be stuck in this role, pseudo-parenting me forever. For once, I didn't accept my father's absence. It angered me to be sat opposite him while he looked right through me. He might as well have not been there at all, this shell of a man. There, for a moment, I despised him for his weakness.
Faulkner and his father have a difficult relationship. What was it like for Richard, Eddie and their father living together in that house in the aftermath of Charlie's death? How do we end up with the fraught situation in Chapter 38? And was it always destined to end this way?