A View From The Bridge Eddie's Relationship Analysis

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The play ‘A View From The Bridge’ by Author Miller is set in 1950’s in America, They live in an Italian American neighborhood near the Brooklyn Bridge “the gullet of New York”.

Eddie Carbone is the main character who has been shown as a very caring, loving and strong person, But on the other hand he is a short tempered and a frustated person too. He has different relationships with different characters, Catherine is his neice, Beatrice is Eddie’s wife and Marco is Beatrice’s cousines. He shares a very loving and caring relationship with Catherine, an unsatisfactory relationship with Beatrice and his relationship with Marco changes from good to bad.

His relationship with Catherine is like father and daughter but in fact, Catherine is his neice. Eddie stays with Beatrice and Catherine. Eddie is very responsible towards Catherine, he is not letting her wear anything if its “too short”. Secondly, Eddie does is not letting catherine work because of “the bad neighbourhood” and because Eddie believes that going out
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When Marco arrived , Eddie was very welcoming towards him. But as the play goes ahead their relationship starts getting worst because of Roldolfo and Catherine. Marco believes that both (Roldolfo and Catherine) are adults, they know whats good for them. But on the other hand, Eddie feels that Catherine is still a kid, Roldolfo is trapping Catherine in his love. Eddie has challenged Marco to “lift a chair” from the bottom of which Eddie succedded to lift it but Marco could not, he did this to make Marco aware of his strength and masculinity. By doing this Eddie had thought that they would leave, but they didn’t. Marco told Eddie that “in my country (eddie) would be dead now ” to prove his power and he used this words of revenge because he is tired of daily challenges with Eddie. Marco warns Eddie to stay away from Roldolfo and

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