The characters / Recurring character
Eddie Dean
Eddie Dean is recorded in 7 distinct storys.
The airline passenger drawn into Roland’s world in The Drawing of the Three continues as the gunslinger’s companion and Susannah’s husband. The Wind Through the Keyhole explicitly introduces him as Eddie Dean of New York with his wife and Roland. Edward Cantor Dean is explicitly Eddie’s full name in both passages.
Also recorded as Edward Cantor Dean.
Stories and supporting passages
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
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That’s why— But it suddenly seemed those were not his own eyes in the mirror, not Eddie Dean’s hazel, almost-green eyes that had melted so many hearts and allowed him to part so many pretty sets of legs during the last third of his twenty-one years, not his eyes but those of a stranger.
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The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
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Eddie smiled. “Me, too. And I can tell you something else: your good friend Edward Cantor Dean is looking forward to a long and leisurely squat in this grove of trees first thing tomorrow morning. You wouldn’t believe how tired I am of eating deermeat and crapping rabbit-turds.
Edward Cantor Dean is explicitly Eddie’s full name in both passages.
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3 TWO DAYS BEFORE, EDDIE Dean had begun carving again—the first time he’d tried to carve anything since the age of twelve. He remembered that he had enjoyed doing it, and he believed he must have been good at it, as well.
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The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
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Just that casual admonition not to behave like a child, grinning and cracking jokes, now that their lives were at wager. He opened his mouth to say something—an Eddie Dean Special, something that would be both funny and stinging at the same time, the kind of remark that always used to drive his brother Henry dogshit—and then closed it again.
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The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
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The space shuttle with the teacher on board hasn’t blown up. John Lennon is still alive, although he won’t be much longer if he doesn’t stop messing with that wicked heroin, that China White. As for Eddie Dean, Edward Cantor Dean, he knows nothing about heroin.
Edward Cantor Dean is explicitly Eddie’s full name in both passages.
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The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
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Next to Roland, holding no one’s hand, silent and dreadfully white, sat Eddie Dean. Beside him, cross-legged on the floor, was Jake Chambers. He had pulled Oy into his lap, a thing Roland had never seen before and would not have believed the billy-bumbler would allow.
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The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
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If it had stayed on, both he and Roland would surely have been injured, maybe killed. When the wave came, staying in control of John Cullum’s Ford Galaxie dropped all the way off Eddie Dean’s list of priorities.
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The Wind Through the Keyhole
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Eddie looked at Roland. Roland gave him nothing, so Eddie looked back at the old man, shrugged, and grinned. “Little of both, I guess. I’m Eddie Dean, of New York. This is my wife, Susannah. And this is Roland Deschain. Of Gilead.” The riverman’s eyes widened. “Gilead that was?
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