Characters in A View From the Bridge

Beatrice

• Beatrice is Eddies wife and is Catherine's aunt by marriage.
• She is kind, gentle and calm throughout.
• Portrays the normal housewife in the 50's- controlled by Eddie.
• She prepares to make sacrifices to help restore sanity- she refuses to attend Catherine's wedding because Eddie doesn't want her to.
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Eddie

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• Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman working on the docks of Brooklyn.
• Eddie is protective towards Catherine. When Rodolfo come this protectiveness becomes obsessive.
• Longshoremen have a code of honor. Eddie breaks it by betraying Marco and Rodolfo to the immigration department. He loses all respect and this leads to his harmatia/downfall
• He feels that Catherine will love Rodolfo more and that Eddie will lose her love for him.
• His jealousy shows that he is emotionally unstable.
• In the end he is shown some dignity during his death.

Catherine

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• Catherine is Eddies niece.
• She is a pleasant and attractive character.
• In the play Catherine starts a new job despite Eddies objections.
• Rodolfo arrives and Catherine is immediately attracted to him.
• Eddie tries to give Rodolfo a bad image e.g. talking about his motives. However Catherine accepts Rodolfo's assurance that he is genuine to his attentions.
• She can also be strong when necessary and goes against Eddie in her condemnation of him.
• However Catherine does murmur her regret for Eddie's tragic end.

Marco

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• Marco is one part of the illegal immigrant duo which heads to the Carbone's in New York for work and money.
• He is strong, tough and is the older than his brother
• Marco came from Sicily to support his family, who were in need for medicine.
• When he discovers that Eddie betrays him he feels he has the right to get revenge.
• when speaking to Alfieri , the lawyer he doesn't understand why Eddie gets away with it. This might be because in Alfieri's monologue he mentions how the law was unpopular when the Greeks came in the ancient times.
• Marco kills Eddie with turning around Eddies own knife on him.
• Because of what Eddie did he shows no regret on killing him.

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