'A View from a bridge' - I set my scene in Eddie and Beatrice's front room. They are all sitting quietly around the dining room eating 'meat loaf'.

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Georgia Fernandez          

                                     ‘A View from a bridge’                                                

  I set my scene in Eddie and Beatrice’s front room. They are all sitting quietly around the dining room eating ‘meat loaf’.

I decided to write that the characters were eating meat loaf because it is a traditional American meal.

Beatrice and Eddie are trying their best to persuade Catherine to not marry Rodolpho, because they strongly assume that he only wants to marry their daughter, Catherine, so he could stay in the country, this way, Rodolpho could get a job and earn some money for himself.

 

  Catherine says reassuringly, “I know what I am doing, this man, the man I love, loves me.” This tells the audience that Catherine is positive and she is devoted to Rodolpho. This makes the audience feel that Catherine and Rodolpho are in a strong relationship and that Eddie and Beatrice are wrong for saying that he wants to marry her just to stay in the country. I have written that Eddie is ashamed of his own daughter because she is letting him down by marrying such a villain of a man.

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‘He doesn’t love you and never will!’ this makes Catherine feel like she is being used.

She is ‘mortified’ by what Eddie is telling her. This is because Eddie is her own father and she now knows that he does not trust Rodolpho, the man she loves.

 

  Catherine then tells Beatrice and Eddie how she ‘will marry him’, “whether you like him or not I’m going to marry him” which demonstrates that at this part of the scene she is in charge and she is telling them what she is going to do, as if she was the ...

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