Yet, they are both authority figures for Rabbit and impact his struggle between childhood and adulthood. Tothero doesn’t know they ever got back together in the first place, and thinks the baby dies because Rabbit failed to go back to her. Eccles thinks Rebecca’s death is an inexplicable tragedy that further unites Janice and Rabbit. Tothero tells Rabbit both to go back to Janice, and to be free and love all the ladies. Eccles is definitive in his advice to Rabbit: go back to Janice. Tothero lives at the Sunshine Athletic Association, a pretty seedy joint. Stitched together clumsily." Eccles lives in an airy rectory. Tothero is married, too, but thinks the skin on his wife’s face "looks like the hides of a thousand lizards stitched together. Eccles is a pillar of the community, and Tothero lost his job coaching due to an unidentified "scandal." Eccles is married to the lovely Lucy. Eccles and Tothero almost seem like polar opposites. Where Eccles’s main purpose in life is helping Rabbit, Tothero has his own problems. He credits Tothero with his success in basketball. We learn from Rabbit at the beginning of the novel that Rabbit finds Tothero a powerful figure in his life, second only to his mother.
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