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Quote #10
THE OLD MAN: Now tell her. Tell her the way it happened. We've got a pact. Don't forget that.
EDDIE: (calmly to THE OLD MAN) It was your shotgun. Same one we used to duck-hunt with. Browning. She never fired a gun before in her life. That was her first time.
THE OLD MAN: Nobody told me any a' that. I was left completely in the dark.
EDDIE: You were gone. (557-560)
It seems that Eddie's mother didn't fare any better after the Old Man skipped town—sadly, she actually killed herself. The Old Man tries to shrug off any responsibility for her depression by saying he didn't know about it, and of course Eddie has to remind his dear old dad that the reason he didn't know about it was that he was gone.