Arthur Miller's 'A View From The Bridge' was set in 1955.

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Arthur Miller's 'A View From The Bridge' was set in 1955. Miller lived in Brooklyn; it is here that the play was set. A longshoreman told the original story of this play 'A View From The Bridge', which miller based his story upon. 'Eddie' is a longshoreman. Miller worked alongside Italian immigrants, he learnt about there struggles in life in there own country and how there families were left behind, miller uses this in the play. The fact that miller used Italian immigrants as the characters in his play shows that he regards ordinary people as important. A View From The Bridge was written as a play to show the realism of the story to the audience, and highlight the emotion behind the play.

To open the play Miller uses stage directions. He sets the play in Brooklyn. The setting of the play is mainly in the living room-dinning room in Eddie's apartment. This would affect the audience by creating a tense atmosphere because of the space in the rooms. Eddie's apartment mainly has all the action and everything is happening there, but Miller still describes the outer streets to show the realism of the play to the audience.