A view from the bridge - A Miller

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The main character of the play is a man called Eddie. Eddie is a man in his late thirties. Eddie is overprotective towards his nice Catherine. Eddie also has a wife called Beatrice who is often in the kitchen making tea or supper.

        Catherine is a very kind hearted person of seventeen and is in her last year of secretarial college and is studying stenography (typing). There are also two other characters in the play they are Marco and Rodolfo. These two are Beatrice’s cousins coming over from Sicily as illegal immigrants. They are both working illegally as longshoreman.

        There is one more character in the play and that is Alfieri. He is a lawyer. He is not in the play much. He has this big opening speech at the beginning of the play were he comments on the action of the play almost like a narrator outside the situation.

        Ever since Rodolfo turned up to live illegally in Eddies house Catherine had fallen for him. These two were boyfriend and girlfriend from the time Rodolfo arrived and Eddie didn’t like it one bit. You can tell this by when Catherine asks Rodolfo to dance and Eddies Face had the most disturbing face as if to say “you leave my daughter alone” even though Catherine isn’t his daughter. Catherine is in her last year of college and is a very modest person.

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        There was one part in the play where I thought there was a massive development to Rodolfo and Catherine’s relationship and that was when Eddie offered to teach Rodolfo how to box. I thought this was a warning from Eddie to Rodolfo as if to say “leave Catherine alone” but I think it gave Rodolfo more courage to make his relationship work.

        There relationship continues to bother Eddie. There was one incident were Rodolfo and Catherine went to the Paramount and got back late this was because the film finished late, but Eddie was very annoyed and forced Marco ...

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