Characters in A View from the Bridge

Characters in A View from the Bridge

1. EDDIE

   • HONOUR & JUSTICE
     • "They grabbed him in the kitchen and pulled him down the stairs - three flights his head was bouncin' like a coconut."
       • Vinny Bolzano anecdote - Irony
         • Sets Tone
       • "a guy do a thing like that? How's he gonna show his face?"
       • Dehumanised
       • "The whole neighbourhood was crying."
         • Tragic brutality of enforcement of community law
     • "It's an honour, B. I mean it."
       • Value of immigrants within community
     • "Marco's got my name - and you run tell him, kid, that he's gonna give it back to me in front of this neighbourhood, or we have it out."
       • "I want my respect!"
     • "I'm ashamed. Paper Doll they call him. Blondie now."
     • "Eddie Carbone. Eddie Carbone. Eddie Carbone."

2. BEATRICE

3. ALFIERI

   • HONOUR & JUSTICE
     • A:"Justice is very important here"
       • Sets tone
     • "Only God makes Justice"
     • Short statements
       • Uses authority to make definitive statements - descriptions
     • "The law is nature. The law is only a word for what has a right to happen"
       • Legal position vs. Acknowledgement of lack of value of law
         • Ironic contrast
           • Respect for community
           • You won't have a friend in the world, Eddie!"
             • illegal
     • "Law has not been a friendly idea since the Greeks were beaten"

4. CATHERINE

   • FEMININITY
     • "You're getting to be a big girl now, you gotta keep yourself more, you can't be so friendly, kid."

5. RODOLFO

6. MARCO

   • HONOUR & JUSTICE
     • A:"To promise not to kill is not dishonourable"
       • Shows extent of their values - he has to be told this by A
       • Alfieri understands
       • Ironic, dishonour worse than death
     • "That one! He killed my children! That one stole the food from my children!"