A View from the Bridge Important Quotations

A View from the Bridge Important Quotations

1. Justice

2. Love and Lust

3. Dreams, Hopes, Plans

4. Men and Masculinity

   • Eddie: "The guy ain't right."
   • Eddie: "if you close the paper fast, you could blow him over"
   • Eddie: "He looked so sweet there, like an angel- you could kiss him he was so sweet."

5. Women and Femininity

   • Eddie: "What's the high heels for, Garbo?"
   • Rodolfo: "You think i would carry on my back the rest of my life a woman i didn't love just to be an American"
   • Catherine: If I was a wife I would make a man happy instead of goin' at him all the time"

6. Respect and Reputation

   • Eddie: "I'm ashamed. Paper Doll they call him. Blondie now"
   • Marco: "That one! [Eddie] He killed my children! That one stole the food from my children"
   • Catherine: "He's a rat! He belongs in the sewer"

7. Epiphany

   • Catherine: "Eddie, I never meant to do nothing bad to you"
   • Eddie: "Then why - Oh, B..!"