How does the opening scene of 'A View from the bridge' prepare the audience for the tragedy of this dramatic play?

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How does the opening scene of 'A View from the bridge' prepare the audience for the tragedy of this dramatic play?

'A View from the Bridge' is a dramatic play about two illegal immigrants, who travel from Italy to the Red Hook slum in New York and stay with their relatives-The Carbones. The play ends tragically with the death of Eddie Carbone and the play shows how the family are split up by jealousy, betrayal and mistrust. It is set during the aftermath of The Great Depression in the 1930s. The play was written in 1955 by the playwright Arthur Miller, who worked as a longshoreman in 1940 in Brooklyn.

This play can be classed as a tragedy because the protagonist dies at the end. A tragedy is a play that has many disastrous events included in it and usually ends with the death of the main character-most of the time through a fault of their own. In this play Eddie Carbone is the protagonist and he is killed at the end of the play. Throughout the play many bad things happen, for example Eddie betrays Marco and Rodolpho.

This essay will focus on the opening scene