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How Does Arthur Miller Achieve Dramatic Impact at the End of Act One and the Beginning of Act Two?

Arthur Miller was Jewish of a Polish decent he and his family lived in New York in 1915 but they moved to Brooklyn were A View From the Bridge is set.  By the time he wrote A View from the Bridge he was an established playwright. Arthur worked in the Brooklyn shipyards for two years were he heard a story of some men coming over to work illegally and being betrayed. The story inspired him to write A View from the Bridge which was written in 1955 as a one act play. In 1956 he wrote the play to a two-act play.

Eddie is very jealous of Rodolfo and doesn’t approve of him and Catherine going out. When Catherine asks Rodolfo to dance in the stage directions it says “Eddie freezes.” Rodolfo could see that Eddie froze and didn’t want them to dance so he refused to dance this shows he respected Eddie’s feelings. Catherine insisted from them to dance so they did. Catherine and Rodolfo and dancing to paper doll. In the song it says “it’s tough to love a doll that’s not your own.” This quote is important because this is how Eddie feels about Catherine.  It means that Eddie can’t love a doll (the doll as Catherine) like his own meaning he can’t love her like she is his girlfriend. Eddie starts to become more and more jealous so he takes his entire anger out on Rodolfo. He does this by boxing with Rodolfo.

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Eddie has invited Marco and Rodolfo to go and watch a boxing match. When Eddie asks Rodolfo to have a play fight he refuses, which shows he is scared of Eddie and he just made Eddie angry with dancing with Catherine. Rodolfo and Eddie start boxing so Eddie takes the opportunity to hit him. This shows that Eddie wants revenge after the dancing episode with Catherine. Eddie is a sneaky man as it says in the stage directions “he feints with his left hand and lands with his right.” this quote is telling us that Eddie tricked Rodolfo , so ...

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