The audience respects Eddie because he shows he is a strong character and protective over his family. Although he may seem hard it is obvious he wants what he feels is right for his family without stoping to think what is actually best for them.
Eddie first goes to see Alfieri because of Rodolpho relationship with Catharine. He wants to see whether Alfieri can do anything legal in breaking the couple’s relationship. Alfieri was unsympathetic towards Eddie and repeatedly tells him there is actually nothing he can do to legally stop their relationship. He says “there’s only one legal question here: the manner in which they entered the country”.
Eddie goes to see Alfieri for the second time, as soon as Alfieri sees Eddie it is obvious to him something is wrong. Eddie is anxious and still set on breaking the relationship. Alfieri tries to prevent Eddie’s feelings from worsening by telling him that if he acts on his feelings for Catherine and tells of Marco and Rodolpho he, “won’t have a friend left in the world”, the whole community will turn against him.
At the end of the play Alfieri shows mixed emotions. This is confirmed by when Alfieri says, “I think I will love him more than all my sensible clients” even though Alfieri acknowledges the wrong that Eddie has done, some part of him respects that he is true to him.
He isn’t fully blameless, he is responsible for eddies death by not given Eddie good enough advice. He is also responsible because Alfieri could foresee something bad could happen after Eddie’s first visit. I recognise this when he says “I knew then and there… I could have finished the whole story that afternoon… I knew were he was heading for, I knew were he was going to end ….. I was so powerless to stop it”.
The time where Beatrice first shows that she is aware of eddies feelings for Catharine is in the first scenes when Beatrice says, “she’s seventeen years old, you gunna keep her in the house all her life?” She gets emotional towards Eddie when she says, “when am I gunna be a wife again?” she avoids tackling the situation head on. Eddie is ignorant towards her attitude when he replies, “I got nothin’ to say about it”. I don’t think Beatrice handled the situation well but in alliance with this I do not think that Eddie helped the situation by being ignorant towards Beatrice.
Beatrice speaks to Catharine about the problem by confronting Catharine with Eddie’s feelings. She says this to encourage Catharine to stand up to Eddie and marry Rodolpho, “you gotta give him to understand that he can’t give you orders no more”. By saying this, it makes Catharine want to distance herself from Eddie because of what Beatrice has told her.
I think Beatrice handled speaking to Catharine well about this situation because she tells her what she believes is right, she doesn’t lie, Beatrice is true and honest.
Just before Eddie dies Beatrice confronts him with the truth about Catharine saying “you want something else, Eddie, and you can never have her!” hearing Beatrice say this it makes Eddie mad, he reacts with pure anger, as he clenches his fists, crying out in his defence “that’s what you think of me-that I would have such a thoughts”.
In the play Beatrice helps Eddie by talking to Eddie and Catharine about the situation, she also tries to get Catharine out the situation saying to Eddie “…she’s seventeen years old, you gunna keep her in the house all her life?” this is trying to get Catherine out of the situation trying to get her out of the house.
Beatrice is responsible for eddies death because she didn’t act soon enough. If Beatrice acted sooner Eddie could have calmed and a lot of this wouldn’t have happened.
Marco wants revenge on Eddie because Eddie contacted immigration to inform them of him and Rodolpho. This angers Marco and makes him want to seek revenge. He believes that Eddie’s action was the start of a downward spiral leading to the unfortunate fate of his children. He confirms this in the quote, “That one! He killed my children”.
Marco could be blamed for eddies death because of his personal vendetta. He went to Eddies house fuelled with aggression, shouting, “Eddie Carbone” outside of Eddies house demanding that Eddie steps outside to settle this.
If you were trying to clear Marco of international murder you could argue that Eddie pulled a knife out. Another reason you can state is that Marco was using self defence to prevent getting hurt these reasons is what can clear Marco from international murder.
Marco kills Eddie at the end of the final scene. Eddie lunges at Marco and they begin to fight. Eddie pulls out a knife and attempts to stab Marco. Eddie tries to stab Marco but Marco twists the knife and stabs Eddie instead, it results in Eddie dying.
There is evidence in this which tells us that Marco is responsible for eddies death such as when Marco says, “in my country, he would have been dead by now. He would not live this long” this gives me more knowledge which tells me that Marco is responsible for eddies death. This quote tells us that Marco is a man of vendetta, this is the way he settles his problems.
Eddie is a man of honour dying like this suits him because he has fought for what he believes in.
I have come to the conclusion that Eddie is fully responsible for his death. I believe he bring everything on himself such as calling immigration because he couldn’t control his jealousy which resulted into angering Marco, this leaded into a vendetta. By settling this feud Marco wants to fight, as Eddie comes out he brings a knife; if he had not brought that knife the damage would have been so much less.
The writer directing the final words towards Alfieri is aimed at touching each member of the audience, each feeling mixed emotions throughout the play however, whoever is to blame becomes irrelevant and you can not help but morn and feel a sense of loss over I life that has been taken. The writer points out that for all Eddie’s wrong doings he was unable to control his actions due to his belief in what he felt was right.
I think a view from a bridge is a tradedgey because throughout the play Eddie goes through so much. He loses respect from others, he drifts apart from his niece on the strengths of his personal beliefs and lack of control over his jealousy and consequently loses his own life. The line in which sums up the main point for is when Alfieri says “sometimes we settle for half and I like it better”.
