Catherine and Rodolpho will soon be getting married. Eddie hates this idea and so makes the decision to call the immigration office. The immigration office sent police round to eddies house to arrest Rodolpho and Marco. They are then taken and held in a police cell. Eddie tries to cover the fact that he called the immigration by lying but is soon found out and hated by everyone. The immigration office said that Rodolpho would be allowed to stay in America if he marries Catherine but Marco will have to go back to Italy. Rodolpho tries to make up with Eddie but it fails. Marco then confronts Eddie, this results to Eddie dying in Beatrice’s arms.
We can tell that Eddie is hard working because of a quote by Alfieri on page 4. The quote states:
“this ones name is Eddie Carbone, a long shore man working the docks from the Brooklyn bridge to break water were the open sea begins”.
Eddie has a split personality, sometimes we see his good side but sometimes we see his bad side. In his relationship with his wife there is no physical contact, this is because he gives all his love to Catherine.
We can see that Eddie wants the best for Catherine by this quote from Eddie:
“Look did I ask you for money? I supported you for this long I’ll support you a little bit more; please do me a favour will you? I want you to be in a nice office; a lawyer’s offices maybe, some place in New York one of them nice buildings. I mean if your going to get out get out of here don’t go partially in the same kind of neighbourhood”.
The themes in this play are love, sexuality, conflict, jealously, betrayal, hatred, obsession, loyalty, justice, respect and dignity.
The play is based on an Italian family. In an Italian family the belief is that they should not turn on their family in times of need. Eddie does not believe this because he turned on his family when they needed him. This means that Eddie does not have an Italian belief otherwise he would not of done this.
I think the reason that he done this was because he is obsessed with Catherine. When Eddie realised that Catherine was grown up and in love this is when his character changed.
Eddie started to get jealous when he realised how well Catherine and
Rodolpho were getting along. When Eddie realised that they were in love this is when we see his jealously. We can tell this from this quote from Eddie:
“What do you mean it is alright with you? That’s going to be her husband”. Eddie is desperate for a woman he can never have.
The reason why Eddie loved Catherine so much is because she knew everything about him and had the qualities that Eddie liked. Eddie treated her like a child because he did not want he to realise that she was growing up. Eddie liked this because he could have control over her.
At this point this is when the audience realises that Eddie has no hopes except from the hopes of having a woman he can never have. The audience may think that Eddie is selfish because he will not let Catherine lead her own life. By looking at the way eddies personality changes I think that he is having a mid-life crisis.
There are different types of relationships in the play:
The relationship with Eddie and Catherine is incestuous love.
The relationship between Beatrice and Eddie is platonic love.
The relationship between Rodolpho and Eddie is they are like rivals trying to get Catherine.
The relationship between Marco and Eddie is hatred.
The relationship between Alfieri and Eddie that Alfieri is eddies lawyer.
I feel that Catherine is partly to blame because she knew everything about Eddie and so she should have realised his feeling to wards her. Also she should have not acted like a child all the time allowing Eddie to have control over her.
I feel sorry for Marco because he is a good person trying to give his family a good future but Eddie destroys his plans.
I also feel sorry for Rodolpho because he done what everyone does, falls in love. We can tell that he is a good person because he tries to make up with Eddie.
I think Beatrice has no self-esteem because she does everything that Eddie tells her and does not stick up for herself.
I think that Eddie is helpless. He is obsessed with work and I think that he has no future. I think that because he did not get his only hope that he did not mind dying.
I do not feel sorry for Eddie dying because he is a back stabber and should not of done what he done. I think that he is very over protective and over reacted when he found out that Catherine was in love.
The audiences’ reaction might be different to mine but I was shocked when Marco killed Eddie because I thought that it might have been Rodolpho that killed him because of all the things that Eddie done to him.
