A View from the Bridge. In his portrayal of Italian immigrants, the author is able to use language to his advantage. Each character has a different level of point of view

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A view from the bridge by Arthur Miller

The play is set in New York, in the borough of Brooklyn. It is home to many Italian immigrants. Italy itself represents different things to the main characters in the play. For example, Catherine associates Italy with mystery, romance and beauty. Rodolfo, on the other hand, is actually from Italy, and thinks it is a place with little opportunity, that he feels justified in escaping from

The first act is about Eddie’s attempts to prevent Catherine from falling in love with Rodolpho. Eddie discovers in the second act that his attempts have been in vain. He then tries to dispose of Rodolpho. In his portrayal of Italian immigrants, the author is able to use language to his advantage. Each character has a different level of point of view, with Alfieri as the only educated English speaker. So I believe it is Alfieri who is able to define the action of the play to the audience.

Eddie has a strong personality, motivation and relationships with people he knows. Eddie is the main character in A View from the Bridge, Eddie has two personas one of his personas is to be head of the house and makes shore everything runs smoothly and his other personas is to go to work put his head down and work. Eddie works as an alongshore man. “I don’t care who sees them go in or out as long as you don’t see them go in and out”. Eddie says this to Catharine and Beatrice so if the immigration office find out about their illegal cousins from Italy are staying with them all the blame goes on Eddie because he told Catharine Beatrice not to tell anyone about there cousins this shows us Eddie has power over his family and that puts him in a high place in society and he cares about his family this also shows us has a motivation, and his motivation is that his cousins come to America make money and sent it back home to wife and kids people did this back in 1950s helping the Family much as possible and giving commands to everyone is typical for Eddie character.

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Eddie’s  motivation is to help Catharine as much as possible and to make Catherine get a good job because he does not want her to be like him he wants her to work in a nice office somewhere in New York  “you’ll never get nowhere unless you finish school. You can’t take no job”. Eddie is trying to say in America you can’t get a good job without a good education and qualifications this is linked to motivation because Eddie wants Catharine to get a good job and to be a success and it’s also linked to power because Eddie ...

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