How did Edward's lack of enthusiastic response to Kelly's new job show that he was not like her father?

Kelly's first professional job was with the United Way. She called Edward with the news that she was starting with an annual salary of $85,000. Edward's job at a tele-com company was paying him only $75,000. Kelly and Edward were living together by then. Kelly was all dressed up to go out to dinner to celebrate her new job but Edward seemed strangely disinterested. She felt hurt by his blasé attitude. Kelly wanted Edward to be like her over-enthusiastic father but he told her that he wasn't like him and in fact, no one was.