My essay is about a play called A View From The Bridge

The play is set in the 1940s in Brooklyn New York. The play is about a man called Eddie Carbone, who is a hard working long shore man. He lives with his wife Beatrice and her niece Catherine. They have raised Catherine, as they have no children of their own. As the play progresses two new characters are introduces. Their names are Rodolpho and Marco, they play two brothers who are illegal immigrants, and they are also Beatrice’s cousins. They have come to America to make money for their family in Italy.

The theme of the play changes later in play when Catherine finds herself falling in love with Rodolpho. Eddie, although Catherine’s uncle, has very strong feeling for her and does not like the idea of Catherine and Rodolpho being together so tries to make it seam that Rodolpho is gay. All eddies attempts to break Catherine and Rodolpho up fail so Eddie then does something that he will regret.

Catherine and Rodolpho will soon be getting married. Eddie hates this idea and so makes the decision to call the immigration office.

The immigration office sent police round to eddies house to arrest Rodolpho and Marco. They are then taken and held in a police cell. Eddie tries to cover the fact that he called the immigration by lying but is soon found out and hated by everyone. The immigration office said that Rodolpho would be allowed to stay in America if he marries Catherine but Marco will have to go back to Italy.

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Rodolpho tries to make up with Eddie but it fails. Marco then confronts Eddie, this results to Eddie dying in Beatrice’s arms. We can tell that Eddie is hard working because of a quote by Alfieri on page 4.

The quote states: “this ones name is Eddie Carbone, a long shore man working the docks from the Brooklyn bridge to break water were the open sea begins”. Eddie has a split personality, sometimes we see his good side but sometimes we see his bad side. In his relationship with his wife there is no physical contact, this is because he gives all his love to Catherine. We can see that Eddie wants the best for Catherine by this quote from Eddie: “Look did I ask you for money? I supported you for this long I’ll support you a little bit more; please do me a favour will you?

I want you to be in a nice office; a lawyer’s offices maybe, some place in New York one of them nice buildings. I mean if your going to get out get out of here don’t go partially in the same kind of neighbourhood”. The themes in this play are love, sexuality, conflict, jealously, betrayal, hatred, obsession, loyalty, justice, respect and dignity. The play is based on an Italian family. In an Italian family the belief is that they should not turn on their family in times of need. Eddie does not believe this because he turned on his family when they needed him.

This means that Eddie does not have an Italian belief otherwise he would not of done this. I think the reason that he done this was because he is obsessed with Catherine. When Eddie realised that Catherine was grown up and in love this is when his character changed. Eddie started to get jealous when he realised how well Catherine and Rodolpho were getting along. When Eddie realised that they were in love this is when we see his jealously. We can tell this from this quote from Eddie: “What do you mean it is alright with you? That’s going to be her husband”. Eddie is desperate for a woman he can never have.