Tension in Eddie's Relationship with Catherine in Arthur Miller's a View from the Bridge

Another way in which Miller creates sense of tragedy to come by creating tension in the Carbone family. There is a tension in the relationship between Eddie and Catherine; they both have an uncle and a niece relation. But the way in which they treat each other makes the audience think that they have closer relationship than a father and a daughter. The tension builds up from the beginning of the play when Eddie comments on the ‘skirt’ being ‘too short’. In this speech the audience would think that they are boyfriend and girlfriend or husband and wife until later we see that they are related to each other in a different way. Also, Eddie orders that Catherine can’t have the ‘job’ because it isn’t right for her, which is what a husband would order to their wife because the wife might have an affair with someone else. . In this we see that he is being over-protective on Catherine. Also, we see that Eddie still wants Catherine to be small because sometimes she is called ‘baby’, ‘Katie’ and ‘kid’, which is what a father and mother would call their

The main tension experienced in “A View from the Bridge” is due to the great contrast between how Eddie sees Catherine, and how she sees him. In Eddie's world, he imagines protecting Catherine from marriage or any male relationship and wants her for himself. While Eddie wavers and switches between communal and state laws and cultures to discriminate against Rodolpho, his motivations do not change, regardless of the fact it is often at the expense of others. Throughout the play, Miller creates uncomfortable situations for the reader/viewer, caused by the emergence of Eddie’s unusual ‘love’ for Catherine. This is shown in particular in act one, when Catherine

Beatrice and Eddie experience a great deal of emotional conflict. They undergo this emotional conflict throughout the entire play, an example of this is when Beatrice says to Eddie “Tell her goodbye forever.” But then also says to Catherine “Then we all belong in the garbage.” The phrase she says to Eddie highlights Eddie’s desire for Catherine and his hamartia and this quote accentuates their unrequited love. What she says to Catherine shows the other side to her, being reliable to and dedicated to Eddie at all times even when he doesn’t deserve her loyalty. Near the

Eddie in A View from the Bridge came from a noble family background and had failed to realize his weakness that he had love for his niece. In this case, this love is not an adopted daughter and a father love but rather the love of a man to a woman. This tradition of a tragic hero, the wealthy or the

Eddie Carbone is the tragic protagonist of A View from The bridge. Throughout Act 1, Eddie is presented as masculine and a tragic hero. He shows many signs of masculinity, such as making commands in his household, expecting them to be obeyed. We know this when he tells Catherine that he “thinks it's too short," he expects her to change her outfit. He is also shown as a tragic hero due to his importance towards other characters. Regarding Catherine’s dress, he shows signs of his disapproval, causing Catherine to be “almost in tears”.

Eddie’s masculinity also leads him to call Immigration on Beatrice’s cousins – he has been so threatened by how Rodolpho’s lack of masculinity has still won over Catherine. Eddie is so wound up by this that it leads to his inner conflict, and conflict with Marco and

Eddie is introduced as a moral man with ethics and principles. Miller showed that at the beginning of the play, Eddie tells the story of a young boy who ratted on immigrant relatives staying in his home and warn Catherine that she must be absolutely silent about Marco and Rodolpho. Moreover, there was a discussion between Eddie and Beatrice; where Beatrice is afraid of her immigrant cousins being caught. Therefore, Eddie told her: “listen if everybody keeps his mouth shut, nothing can happen. They’ll pay for their board.”(Miller, 1955, p.9).Later in the story, Eddie revealed a different identity .He was blinded with passion to the point of immorality. When he knew about Catherine falling in love with Rodolpho, he told Alfieri that he is going to call the immigration so he can keep Catherine just for him. Even though he knew that he is going to suffer for calling immigration, but does so anyway .Eddie: “Give me the number if the Immigration Bureau.”(Miller, 1955, p.61).To sum up, Miller displayed identity that could be moral with ethics and turns to be and identity that is blinded with

I consider myself a fairly perceptive person, but I guess it's easy to miss something you don't want to see. So now, here we stand, a pleading look on his face and a blank look on mine as he tries to convince me it was a one time thing, he'd never do it again, he didn't want to hurt me, etc, etc. And I want to believe him. I want to believe that him kissing someone who isn't me was all a big misunderstanding. I want to believe that this is the first time he's done this. I want to believe he'd never do it again.

This novel is about an old man named Eddie working at an amusement park named Ruby Pier. Eddie is a maintenance man there. One day something drastic happened. One of the rides was having difficulties. Eddie tried to help the people off the ride before anything could happen. While helping everybody off, there was a little girl who didnt get off fast enough. Eddie tried his best to help, while helping her Eddie died. When he died he went straight to Heaven and meets five people that was in his life, Eddie wonders if he at least saved the little girl.

gains more respect - an aspect in which Eddie relies on the most and a

Why Marco and Rodolfo Came to America in A View From the Bridge by Arthur Miller

Beatrice is the only person with Catherine that stand with Eddie until the end because she doesn’t want to leave her husband in those crucial moments alone, in fact he keeps her husband in her arms until Eddie dies “he dies in her arms, and Beateice covers him with her body” Beatrice will never leave her husband alone and will always support him until the end and she will never let people talk badly about him, she will defend it until the end.

Mcdonald named his essay “A View from the Bridge” because it is a story about a man whose perspective on life and people change. The “View” is how you see something. The “Bridge” is more of looking from another perspective; such as something or someone else's.

Also, Catherine's affection for Rodolfo highlights how she likes things that Eddie doesn't like, making him realise that he is more out of touch with her than he realises. This scares him, and makes him recognize that he cannot control or know what she truly feels in her heart and mind. In the last act, Eddie can't help but let manly pride override his common sense. He demands an apology from Marco, even though he knows that he himself is in the wrong, 'tell them what a liar you are C'mon, liar, you know what you done'.

Alfieri An Italian-American lawyer is the narrator of the story. He speaks straight to the audience and attempts to make clear the greater social and moral inferences of the story. The play is told from the viewpoint of Alfieri, the view from the bridge between American and Italian cultures who attempts to factually give a picture of Eddie Carbone and the 1950s Red Hook, Brooklyn community. Alfieri represents the difficulties personified in the Brooklyn Bridge from the small ethnic communities filled with dock workhands to the disparate cosmopolitan wealth and intellectualism of Manhattan.