Eddie Crocker is another character who enjoys pain and suffering. Eddie is, as David puts it, insane. He enjoys living on the edge, and has no respect for right and wrong or morality. Abused by his father, Eddie is an angry young man who likes to fight and loves to hurt others. He is the perfect abuser, and his involvement with Meg escalates the situation at nearly every turn. It is Eddie who brands Meg with words carved into her skin, Eddie who nearly blinds Meg by submerging her face in boiling water, and it is Eddie who uses a heated tire iron to burn Meg's clitoris.