When his wife’s cousins, Macro and Rodolfo, seek refuge as illegal immigrants from Sicily, Eddie agrees to shelter them.
He tells Marco that they are welcome to his house (you’re welcome Marco, we got plenty of room here).
Marco needs to work, so that he can feed his family and his son who’s sick in the chest.
However miller shows us Eddie’s character being, over protective of his orphaned niece Catherine, in her increasing maturity. He has an urge to protect Catherine, to keep her from discovering her independence, that makes him increasingly sensitive to the presence of Beatrice’s cousins and to Rodolfo in particular, to which Catherine rapidly becomes attracted.
Eddie starts to think differently about Rodolfo, he thinks that Rodolfo is gay and using Catherine so that he could get an American passport.
Eddie’s wife Beatrice is aware of how deep Eddie’s protectiveness is towards Catherine. It soon becomes clear that she is unhappy about Eddie’s attitude to his niece. But as the story goes on the problem between Eddie and Beatrice goes deeper.
Beatrice is worried about when she’s going to be a wife again, (what’s the matter Eddie you don’t like me, heh?).
As Catherine finds her self-growing attraction to Rodolfo, which leads to their planned marriage, brings out an aggressive reaction in Eddie that starts to break the family apart.
Eddie’s desire for Catherine, force him to consult Alfieri for advice, and Alfieri offers nothing but he tells him to allow events to follow their nature course.
It’s now that we know how disparate Eddie is to get rid of the brothers when he betrays them and tells the immigration bureau about them.
Marco finally come face to face with Eddie in the neighbourhood to give Eddie a lesson, he spats on Eddie’s face in front of the whole community persuading them that he is the killer of his children.
As all the characters change their feelings about Eddie, he looses his two best friends Louis and Mike.
Therefore when I look at the end of the story, I can see how miller is showing us a person changing from being loved to being hated.
Now that I looked at how eddies character was like I consider Eddie as a tragic hero because in my knowledge a tragic hero is a character in the play that falls to disaster through the combination of personal failing and circumstances with which he cannot deal with, similar to Shakespeare story in Macbeth.
I think the word hero well not go with eddies character, Because Eddie only thought of himself and no one else especially Marco’s starving children.
I think Eddie deserved to die, because of what he’s done, but at the same time I feel sorry for him, because he was the reason for Catherine to get educated and to get that far.
I think Miller wants us to think that Eddie had gone to far and he should have settled half way, he also wants us to think that Eddie’s desire for Catherine lead him for his death and Marco’s children.
I think Eddie should have thought of what could have happened to him and to his family before falling for his desire.
I think the play is more likely to show Marco as a hero for putting him self in so much trouble just to save his starving family.
My view about Eddie changes, to me first he looked like a decent and loyal man who was loved by his family and then changes to a selfish, cruel man.
Miller leads us through the play about Eddie’s jealousy, which culminates in an unforgivable crime against his family and the Sicilian community. Millers point above makes me feel stronger about Eddie’s betrayal and Sicilian community, how they acted towards a betray in a family.
The other thing that I felt strongly about was Beatrice’s character,
Her character made me to feel sorry about her, because she was powerless towards Eddie and had no other way but to stick to her husband.
