How does Arthur Miller utilise the character of Alfieri to contribute to the dramatic effect of 'A View from the Bridge?'

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How does Arthur Miller utilise the character of Alfieri to contribute to the dramatic effect of 'A View from the Bridge?'

A View from the Bridge has its roots in the late 1940's. Arthur Miller was told a story from a young lawyer friend about a longshoreman who had told the Immigration Bureau on two brothers, his own relatives, who were living illegally in his own home, in order to break an engagement between one of them and his niece. Arthur Miller noted the story but didn't make anything of it immediately.

After a while Arthur Miller became interested in the lives and work of the communities of dockworkers and longshoremen of New York's Brooklyn harbour, where he had previously worked.

A few years later, during his first visit to Italy, Arthur Miller visited Sicily, where he "saw a dozen men standing around a well in the middle of a dusty piazza." This image attached itself to the story Arthur Miller had heard earlier and combined with the experiences he gained of Italian Immigrant workers in Brooklyn Navy Yard, he has the background to the play that was to become 'A View from the