How Arthur Miller Presents Eddie in A View From A Bridge
Eddie Carbone is the main character in the play “A View From A Bridge”
and I the character that I will talk about in the rest of this essay.
The role of Eddie is very complicated, it is of an Italian American
longshoreman who is ageing, with a loving wife and a beautiful niece,
Catherine; but in his eyes that niece began to seem a little too
beautiful. Fear begins to creep up on Eddie as he sees Catherine
growing further and further away from him. This sense of loss triggers
a large amount of lust in Eddie that caused him to react in the way he
did. Relations between everyone and Eddie worsened when his wife’s
(Beatrice) cousins, Marco and Rodolfo illegally entered US borders and
hid in Eddies house. The younger cousin, Rodolfo and Catherine soon
became infatuated, creating extreme envy in the eyes of Eddie. Due to
this Eddie resorted to calling the immigration and taking away the
cousins. Conditions exacerbated when Rodolfo married Catherine to stay
in the country, and Marco was taken away and threatened to kill Eddie.
Everything ended in a fight to the death between Marco and Eddie.
In my opinion I do not think anything could have happened if Eddie did
not have any problems with his life, wife and niece.
The love between the relationship of Eddie and Beatrice was at its
weakest, the flame had seemed to be put out. This occurred around the
same time that Catherine had grown up and was of the right age to
marry. Since then, Eddie acted differently around Beatrice, as though
he weren’t interested in talking to her. My evidence of this is:
“Beatrice – when am I going to be a wife again Eddie?
Eddie - I aint been feeling good. They bother me since they came.
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... lives incapacitated. Whereas it is Eddie's own chracter traits that are exposed by the characters and circumstances. His active role in his downfall caused "the situation slid inescapably toward disaster"₈ Both protagonists are victims of tragedy brought about by the individual characters themselves as well as external elements.
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Everyone Eddie met in heaven taught him something about his life. They were all connected to him in different ways, whether it was someone close to him once, or a complete stranger. Somehow, all of their lives had crossed Eddie’s and helped make him the person that he had become. When you think about this lesson, you truly understand. One decision causes an effect, maybe on your life or maybe on someone else’s life. That effect will cause something else. It’s what I think of as a ripple effect. Everything happens for a reason, and all of the events that lead up to our “now” makes us who we are.
Eddie went into a depression stage in his life when his older brother returned home from
In this essay the main task is going to be to develop all the characteristics about this strange narrator.
doesn't want her to grow up and as she develops into a woman he wants
protagonist throughout the book as well. Even earlier in the chapter, a reference to Edgar
While Gus is checking her style out he realizes that Eddy was important and he needed to learn from her. He describes his sudden thirst for knowledge about Eddy as follows:
He works hard and has a good job. These good points help us to forgive him more for his bad points however there are quite a lot of them. He is over protective of his niece, Catherine, in her increasing maturity. "I don't like the looks they are giving you in the candy store" "You're a baby" It is I believe this urge to protect Catherine, which makes him try to keep her from discovering independence. Catherine rapidly becomes attracted toward Rodolfo; this makes Eddie increasingly sensitive to
from the start that she is very reliant on Eddie and she wants him to
Upon hearing this Eddie feels awful and asks why the blue man died instead of