Flashcards
Eddies Downfall
Flashcards do conjunto (6)
- 1"Don't aggravate me, Katie, you're walking wavy! I don't like the looks they're given you in the candy store and with them new high heels on the side walk - clack, clack, clack. The heads are turning like windmills"• Metaphor - Walking wavy - Eddies perverted looks at her womanly figure
• Onomatopoeia - clack, clack, clack - enhances her femininity and sound of her heels receiving attention
•simile- heads are turning like windmills - protective over the amount of attention she is getting - 2"What does he do with his first money? A snappy new jacket he buys, records, a pointy pair new shoes and his brothers kids are starving over there with tuberculosis"•Adjectives - snappy and pointy - suggest to fool his fashion sense isn't like a traditional style for a guy
•Eddies attempt to make Rodolfo out as selfish for not sending money to Marcos son
• Eddies proof as to Rodolfo being gay is just stereotypes - i.e. Sings, hair colour, makes dresses, cooks - 3"The chair raised like a weapon over Eddies head. And what might appear as a glare like warning turns into a grin of triumph."•Chair symbolises a weapon - shows Marcos lethal hatred for Eddie
• Simile - glare - Marcos disapproval of Eddies attempt to belittle Rodolfo
•Marco beats eddies attempt to show who is the most masculine in the house
•Eddie still want to prove Rodolfo is gay- later kissing him - 4"They grabbed him in the kitchen and pulled him downstairs. Three flights his head was bouncing like a coconut."•Story of Vinny Bolzano foreshadows Eddies fate - he should have known not to phone immigration
• Shows the force of the family used against Vinny
• simile- his head could easily crack due to force like the fruit - 5"Eddie lunges with the knife. Marco grabs his arm, turning the blade inwards and pressing it home"•Eddie stills try's to get the upper hand over the cousins by cheating
•His high energy still isn't enough and Marco turns it back toward Eddie
• Home - where the knife belongs - fate - Greek tragedy
•Eddie then realises he should have loved Beatrice who always stuck by him - 6"And I think I will love him more than all my sensible clients. And yet, it is better to settle for half, I mean surely -and so I mourn him - I admit - with certain...alarm."• Alferie still respects Eddie for always being true to himself
•He knew Eddies behaviour was irrational
• settle for half - can't indulge in reckless behaviour
•representation of American and Italian law - title view from the Bridge in between societies
•alarm he knows Eddie was not right but still has respect