Fool for Love Power/Control Quotes

This is Eddie refusing to let anyone leave in the middle of his story about his father's bigamy/his incestuous relationship with his sister. Did we mention he's kind of a control freak? Well, he is, and he's going to subject this poor stranger Martin to his weird tell, come hell or high water.

Eddie's control freak tendencies come out most clearly in his attempts to get May on board with his version of reality—or, put differently, with his story about their relationship and the world in general. So, it's no surprise that he is really insistent that he get to finish his tale about the way things are.

Eddie gets his control freaky nature honestly. His father, too, showed that he's a bit of a control junkie himself when he asserted the right to make up his own reality—one in which he's married to Barbara Mandrell. The Old Man thinks that others should be willing to accept his alternate version of reality, so he gets pretty angry when May starts talking about things that contradict that fantasyland. At first, he just implies that she's wrong.