A view from the bridge

give him the answer he wanted and Alfieri acknowledging about his feelings for Catherine. Eddie gets home, goes straight to his rocker and ignores every one.          Miller uses Eddie as a catalyst in this play to create tension between the characters. He uses this technique to partly show Eddie’s character in this play. Eddie and Marco are having a conversation a conversation about Marco’s wife and eddies indirectly insults the Italian conduct of women s not being strict enough” I mean you know they count the kids and there’s a couple extra than when they left?” Miller uses Eddie to build up the conflict between him and other characters by using that provocative statement. Eddie tells Marco that the conduct of women in America is stricter than in Italy, then he suddenly directs his statement to Rodolfo "it isn’t so free here either, Rodolfo like you think."         Catherine draws attention to herself by asking Rodolfo to dance. Eddie is angry because no one is focusing their attention to him again and he always wants to be in control, so he criticises Rodolfo and indirectly says he is not a real man “that’s why the water front is no place for him. While Eddie was saying this his body language shows Eddie is angry " [he has been unconsciously twisting the newspaper…he has bent the rolled paper and it suddenly tears in two]."         Eddie mentions boxing matches and he suggests taking Rodolfo and Marco to a boxing match. Catherine is very happy with this news so she goes to make coffee. Eddie advises her to "to make it nice and strong." Miller succeeds by using Eddie to try intimidating Rodolfo through a boxing lesson. We are not sure if Eddie is going to take out his anger on Rodolfo or he is just going to teach him with an open mind. Eddie punches Rodolfo and he staggers mildly, miller uses this to create tension. This is achieved because immediately Eddie punches Rodolfo, Marco stands up and Catherine rushes to Rodolfo. This brings attention to him and Rodolfo, that’s what Eddie wants always wanting attention. This brings the scene to a climax because Catherine is concerned that Eddie has hurt Rodolfo but he claims he was shocked. Miller uses Beatrice to calm the situation down.         Marco is not impressed by what Eddie has done so he challenges Eddie to a chair-lifting contest. Eddie tries but he can’t, but Marco can. Miller uses this to show the tension between both of them. This brings the scene to a very dramatic pitch because Marco has gained power over Eddie during the chair-lifting contest. This particular scene has brought the play to a very tense and climaxed moment, because the characters are trying to control their emotions. Miller develops conflict between the characters in the final scene of act one in this play using stage directions e.g."[he kneels, grasps, and with strain slowly raises the chair]." He uses other techniques like dialogue, subtexts, facial expression and body language. There are several flashpoints where the tension is really high and miller uses Beatrice to reduce the tension. However the chair-lifting contest is he most dramatic in act1 because it is at the end, marco takes control. Miller uses facial expressions and body language to create tension in this scene.” face to face with Eddie a strained tension gripping his eyes and jaw."This is how miller creates tension in the final scene of act one in a view from the bridge.