How does Miller prepare the Audience for Eddie’sDeath?

His jealousy and love for Catherine made him reject Rodolfo and make Marco fight and hate him.

The aspect of Catherine's character that affects the steps leading up to Eddie's death is her naivety "you still walk around in front of him in your slip...or sit on the edge of the bath tub talking to him when he's shaving in his underwear."

Each member of the family warns Eddie off except Catherine. Marco tries first by appeasing Eddie by telling Rodolfo not to sing and to be back earlier. Then he warns Eddie by lifting the chair from the ground.

"he transforms what might appear a glare of warning into a smile of triumph, and Eddie's grin vanishes as he absorbs his look."

The way Rodolfo tries is also by appeasing Eddie. He is reluctant to dance and is friendly to Eddie.

Also he apologises to Eddie at the end.

"It is my fault, Eddie. Everything. I wish to apologize. It was wrong that I do not ask permission I kiss your hand."

Beatrice advises Eddie to let Catherine go.

"What're you gonna stand over her till she's forty?...cut it out."

Also she addresses the problem directly.

"You want something else and you can never have her!"

But after all this they still failed.

At the end of act one Marco shows Eddie that if he faced Rodolfo he would have to face Marco as well. So he gave Eddie a warning.

Another way Miller prepares us for the ending is through his use of Alfieri as the narrator. In the very first speech of the play, Alfieri says these events will run their "...bloody course" and that " this one's name was Eddie Carbone..." Alfieri is like the chorus in a Greek tragedy, as he knows the story and what will happen but cannot stop it.

"I knew, I knew then and there-I could have finished the whole story that afternoon... I was so powerless to stop it."

The similarity between this and a Greek tragedy is that the main character always dies and no one can stop it, like the wheels of justice, they cannot be stopped.

The Vinny Bolzano story prepares us for Eddie's death by telling us what happened to another person who snitched.

"...Pulled him down the stairs-three flights his head was bouncin'...and they spit on him in the street, his own father and his brothers." Therefore warning us of what will happen to Eddie when he goes to the immigration bureau.

To conclude Arthur miller prepares us for the death of Eddie Carbone in many ways but the main one of these is by using Alfieri like a Greek chorus. This helps us because he can tell us that he knew what was going to happen,

"Step by step ... I knew where he was going to end up."