Eddie in J.B. Priestley's A View From the Bridge
Eddie Carbone is a working class Longshoreman who lives in Red Hook
Brooklyn and is a bitter man.
Eddie is the focal point, everything rests on Eddie’s reaction to
events.
At first this is relatively minor, for example will he or wont he
allow Catherine (Eddie and Beatrice’s niece) to take the job at the
plumbing company? This soon becomes critical, will he or won’t he
understand that he cannot keep Catherine to him self, he must allow
her to live her own life.
Eddie is the centre around which all the conflict in the play revolves
around.
He takes care of his wife Beatrice and looks after a girl called
Catherine who’s father died when she was younger.
Eddie lusts for Catherine but manages to keep his feelings suppressed
and turns it into hate towards Beatrice’s cousins Marco and Rodolpho
which makes him act irrationally. This ends up making Eddie loose his
good name.
Eddie felt that Revenging against Marco will regain his pride and good
name in the community.
There are a lot of moments through out the play where the audience is
given clues that Eddie’s love for Catherine wasn’t normal. For example
when Catherine light’s Eddie’s cigar in the living room, this gives
Eddie unusual pleasure.
Eddie pays great attention to his niece and less attention to his own
relationship which makes this clear.
The summery of plot and themes start off as Beatrice (The wife of
Eddie and the aunt to Catherine) telling Eddie that her cousins would
be arriving around 10pm that nigh and Catherine tells him that she now
has a job that was given to her by her school. Eddie is angry that she
is going to work but is talked around by Beatrice and Catherine. Eddie
harbours a secret lust for his niece Catherine, he is very protective
of her. He is proud of her looks but is concerned that it will attract
the attention of men and covers it up with being concerned about her
One day at school a teacher found a bruise on Ellen's arm. She sends Ellen to live with Julia the
tries to make her disinterested in him so that again, he may concentrate on the
one of reverence and respectability shown through his admiration for the way she dresses and
know beauty in any form”(86). We are so conditioned to see female beauty as what men
eyes he has but chooses not to be with her. He finds her attractive and just
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she was pretty and that was everything” (225). This captivation with herself along with the constant looking in the mirrors and thinking her mother was only pestering her all the time because her mother’s own good looks were long gone by now (225) shows a sign of immaturity because she believes everything revolves around whether or not someo...
My little brother is so irritating. All day long he says, “Eddie, I wonder why people can talk but animals can’t.” Or, “I wonder why the ocean looks blue.” Of course, I don’t know the answers, but I don’t let him know that. I just make up reasonable explanations, and he accepts them as if I’m the smartest person in the world. Before I answer one of his questions, I usually tell him that he’s pretty stupid and asks too many questions.
Eddie in A View From the Bridge by Arthur Miller "A View from the Bridge," is a play by Arthur Miller. The scene is down town New York along the fore shore and involves Eddie Carbone, an Italian Longshoreman, his wife Beatrice and her niece Catherine. When his wife's cousins, Marco and Rodolfo, seek refuge as illegal immigrants from Sicily, Eddie agrees to shelter them. Trouble begins, as his wife's niece Catherine, is attracted to Rodolfo. Eddie's baffled jealousy culminates in an unforgivable crime against his family and the Sicilian community.
from the start that she is very reliant on Eddie and she wants him to
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Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness. (Austen, 2001,
Erin fights for respect and acceptance from a world, which tends to judge from appearance only. Ed accuses her of extortion when she attempts to get raises out of him every time he approves her doing another job with the PG&E case. She asks for increase in salary and at one-point event benefits. Ed ends up giving it to her maybe because he knows that she is on to something and it could end up being really big. However, sh...
himself to divert from the real pursuit of beauty: Since beauty is one of the true
He fantasizes about her, how bringing her a gift from the bazaar will capture her heart.