A poor white man who exists in the Bardo with his wife, Betsy Barron. Eddie is vulgar and crass, even when he speaks to Willie, a mere child. Despite his crudeness, though, he exhibits a capacity for empathy that other Bardo-dwellers lack, since he considers black souls like Elson Farwell his friend. Indeed, he and Betsy have been buried in a mass grave and are the only white souls there. As such, they aren’t as bigoted as many of the other people in the Bardo.