A View Fom the bridge

A View Fom the bridge

1. Honour

   • the physically violence and aggression against Vinny Bolzano with his own family shows the xtrem honur cod among the Italian community
     • he looks at her as though she had divulged something publically
     • kid you can quicker get back a million dllars that was stole than a word that you gave away.
     • within family and communities loyaity and trust is expected
       • (B) looks at ddie. He looks away
         • shows hier disintergrang relaionhsip
           • Whenam i going to be a wife again, eddie ?
   • eddie - its an honour B
     • honour for B AND E to take in family mmbrs due to loyalty o family
   • eddie defences (uneasy tone shows he agrees and is ansious) Rdolppho against Mike and LOuis as he is family an part of eddies repaution lies with R- itlian way

2. Desire and obsession

   • eddie is pleased and therefore shy about it
     • edie harbours a subcontious desire for caterine doesn't want to admit it to himself ence the shyness
   • strcutre of sentencs sshows the nature of the relationship. the balanced speechs between Catherine and ddie show clam ad good relationship. however Band E ar not as n good teerms shown by imbance in seppech and tnesnion
   • Paper Dolls - and it is tough to love a doll that is not your own
     • shows the relationship with edie and catherine
   • scene between E and C after C and R went to Brooklyn paramount shows how powerless E is and how out of control he is over the stituaton
     • his whole sense of meaning has gone as everything was for C
       • (E) looks at her (C) like a lost boy
   • with deep alarm/don't break myy hert
     • can't accept C wants R and not E

3. Femininity

   • eddie - that aint what I wanted though
     • i shows focus his him and his dsires even though it is Cathrines future as a sterographer
   • E: you're getin' to b a big girl now, you gotta keep yourself more.....kid
     • Madonna - shows he idoliss/worships her and wants her to rman pur so no other man can have hr ]]
   • E: you're walking wavy........ clack clack clack
     • sound is attracting attention.. is also provactiv and alluring
   • E*B: you lived in a house all your life? what do you know?........
     • showsfemale limited knowledge as they have not experienced the world. shows femienine role in societ that thy stay at home and are lookd after by male figure head
       • E*C did i ask you for money? i supported you this long
   • Eddie crosses himself and the women do the same
   • E: What's the high heels for Garbo.
   • (B) she gives Edddie a cold look restrained only by the strangers
   • after E*C outburst we see the beginning of B sensing eddie's feeling forC
   • why don't you straignten her out
     • r making C cry it is left to B to deal ith the emotionl suff.
   • growing up
     • B: but you're a grown woman and you are in the same same with agrown man
       • reminding C to be aware of her aciona nd not be naïve. e.g. walking arund in the lipa nad being with him in the bahromm shows she doesn't think about her actions. nor the ffect she has on Eddie.
     • you still think that you are a little girl
     • as thugh a familiar wrd had been shateredproof that she wanta to remain naïve and i her bbble.

4. Masculinity

   • Paternal Role
     • that you would ever grow up
       • doesn't want to let her go never thought ahead t this period
         • E: wih a sense of her childhood her babayhoood ans the ears
   • M: shurugged shyly even embarrassed
     • reaction comes after being asked what is his job - roe of a male is to provide for family.
   • the theme of masculinity is introduced with marco. Macro is married and relaisti as he has reposnsibilities. this is also inline with Millers life a the time of writing this he was arried to Marilyn Monroe. on the honder hand Rodolfo is not houned down by marriage and is idelasitc ambitious dream and passionate
     • M: when you have no wife you have dreams
     • Masculinity is linked t respect. this is shown the the decreasing attention Ede i spaying to Rodolpfo
       • he 9Eddie) is coming more and more to address marco only
   • Eddie has risen with iron control
     • iron = unweilding superior hard dominant rigid strong but laso cold nd emotionally detached
   • Eddie's seat of power is this armchair.
   • Eddie's obsession with Rodolphos stems from him nt being masculine enough fr him
     • Paper Dall they are alling him Canary
       • doll = feminine retty the use of ppaper = flimsy and weak canary is a dig at his blond hair and also they are song birds who have a high ooice.
       • he;s like a weird
   • i can't. i can't talk about it
     • show lck of communication. repeptiiton of words shows he is struggling
   • is that a working man.... a snappy new jacket..new shoes and hi brothers ids are starv over their with tubercolous
     • udde outburst if reflcecive of feels owards R airs hi resumptins that R is ol afte a green card . i is a good way of saing he doesn't like Rodolpho without offending hi

5. justice vs law