The relationship Between Catherine and Eddie.

  Section 3: pages 22-24

E’s points about Rudi

• Pg.22: he’s not supposed to be out parading himself.
• He distracts her from her stenography.
• Pg.23: he sings on the ships.
• People call him paper doll and canary.
• Accuses him of dying his hair.

 

After the cinema- E and B

• Pg22: E is v.anxious and is waiting on the street.
• All his reasons are plausible.
• Pg.23: he gets insulted when B accuses him of being attracted to C.
• Pg. 24: E won’t talk about their relationship so he goes.

Section 4: pg.26-29

• Pg. 26: when C comes home she is v. bubbly and excited. She is practically spilling.
• Pg. 27: she hit’s him playfully, but he carries on being stern. This the last time she will ever touch EDDIE until his death.
• He tries to tell her that she is changing while it is really he. She is still being v. affectionate, he is being mean.
• ‘I use to come home…’ he is still holding onto the past.
• ‘You’re running’ from his perspective she is running away.
• ‘Like a lost Boy’ his surroundings are changing, he is v. vulnerable.
• She is blushing; she probably wouldn’t have felt so embarrassed of Edie earlier on in the play.
• He is describing his feelings in a v. selfish way- ‘my heart’, ‘don’t make me cry”
• Pg. 28: C is v. naïve. She considered that Rudi could be using her.
• E continue to call Rudi ‘that’.
• By the end of the scene on pg. 29 C is repulsed By E. She swears at him, which she would never have done so Before.

Section 5: pages 31-35

• Pg.32: E goes to Alfieri to stop the marriage legally.

• Alfieri describes his eyes ‘like tunnels’. Meaning they were dark, long and could only see in a straight line in front of him. He can only see Rudi stealing C.
• Pg.35: in his speech E shows how much he cares for C. He wanted her to have a Better life. He feels that she has been stolen from him, just like a possession.
• This is unconsciously revealing to Alfieri his true sexual desires about C. ‘the love in him as grown too much.’
• He thinks that Rudi is violating his pure and innocent ‘Madonna’.
• Alfieri tries to put it into words when he says there is too much love, But when his point is overlooked, he puts it more simply- ‘ she can’t marry you can she E?’
• Miller uses the word furious to described E to show that his desires are in fact at a subconscious level.
• Alfieri pauses so as to give time for E to think about it.

• E is a longshoreman who doesn’t let his feelings out.
• In Alfieri’s speech he predicts the outcome of the play. He can see the inevitability of the tragedy. There is an ominous feeling hanging over them all.

Section 6: pages 36-41

• Pg.36: E glances at C in disbelief of whatever has just been said. She protects her Rudi by saying that it is true.

• E’s v.aggressive. His resentment of Rudi is v. noticeable.
• Pg.37: E tries to be jokey about the women in Italy sleeping around but his in fact being quite rude.
• When Rudi tries to defend his culture E uses it as a way of explaining himself.
• Pg.38: He talks in the third person to make it sound general But he is so obvious Both B and Rudi answer Back referring to Rudi and C.
• Marco tries to be co-operative.
• Pg.39: C tries to rebel by asking Rudi to dance. Rudi tries to be polite to E and refuses, but B encourages him.
• E tries to fight back by asking if it is a new record- implying he has been wasting money.
• Pg.40: throughout his speech E is constantly twisting a newspaper which eventually tears. In this speech he tries to prove Rudi is a homosexual.
• After this speech he Becomes v. friendly, But starts to drop hints that he is a real man- telling B to make his coffee nice and strong.
• Pg.41: E then starts to Box Rudi to relieve some of his aggression.
• Rudi’s gentle retaliation to his punch is to ask C to dance.
• Marco also realises this and asks E to lift up a chair. He tries to keep it light and jokey but E knows his true meaning.

ACT II

Section 7: pages 44-48

• Pg.44: C is afraid of E, she would never have been scared of him before. She knows that loving Rudi is hurting E and she doesn’t know what his anger and hurt could result in.
• Rudi crosses over to the rocker, which has generally been associated with E’s authority.
• He is angry he doesn’t like the way E is treating C.
• Pg.45: C and E Both thought that the future was going to Be happy, But now C knows that doing something that is so natural (loving Rudi) means hating E. She is confused her natural instinct is to please E. She has an instinctive recognition of something she can’t intellectually handle.
• Pg.46: the way C speaks is like a wife. Over the years, the family has evolved and the relationship Between E and cat has intensified while B has been pushed out. Her empathy is greater than it should be.
• E has pushed her into believing that she could be a Better wife than B.
• Pg.47: in kissing Rudi he is showing the audience that he has no morals left.

Section 8: pages 48-50

• Pg.49: E is so driven through his pain, suffering and anger, he is doing what he thought he would never be able to do. In betraying the cousins he is betraying himself, he is violating his own moral code. E’s main morals are to Be loyal and honest to your family, and of course to take revenge. So E does know that in Betraying them he is liable to be killed by the cousins. He is in a state of instinct and desire and has lost control of everything rational.

Section 9: pages 52-58

• Pg.52: E sees cat as a possession, no sense of what C wants.
• B- ‘I told you 100 times’ gives us a sense of the history, how long all of this has Been going on.
• Pg.53: C still loves E at this point, even though he has changed so much. He is destroying the very person he loves so much. He knows Rudi leaving will tear her up.
• In the start there was an automatic closeness Between C and E, and B was almost pushed out, now B is trying to bring them Back together. You can’t hate someone so intensely until you have loved him or her with the same intensity.
• Pg.54: E lost his sense of confidence, trying to pursuade C, not so dogmatic. C is now the assertive one. Rudi has Been the catalyst of her Breaking away,
• C appears almost Business like- in control knows what she wants.
• E panics when he hears that the cousins have moved in with other illegal immigrants- a more public arena. Mess with somebody else’s family, revenge issue.
• Pg.55: e has done the worst possible thing, betrayed them all. C life is made so unhappy by this action of a man that she looked up to, loves and respected all her life.
• C is now almost like the animal, desperate to hold onto r. tremendous change, a woman in love, fighting for her future, trying desperately to save the man she loves.
• Pg.56: e- ‘what are you accusing me?’ defensive reaction. Even though e has done the worst thing, B’s instinct is to run towards him, rather than away. B doesn’t reject him but c does. This shows who the true wife is.
• At the beginning of the play, e tells and foresees his own fate with the VB story.
• B loves the sinner hate the sin- unconditional love.
• Pg.57: Rudi is almost carrying the sobbing c out on to the street. Visual sign of the intense relationship.

Section 10: pages 58-60

• Pg.59: c desperately trying to pursuade Marco not to hurt e. ‘to hell with Eddie!’ c expressing exactly what e had said himself at the beginning of the play. She wants m to forget about e, he’s meaningless.

• Rudi stands bail, wants to be an American, wants to stop revenge code.
• What motivates Marco is the love for his family.

Section 11: pages 60-64

• Pg.60: B desperately, wants to go to the wedding, but in eddy’s mind it is black and white. If b goes to the wedding and supports c their marriage is over. Totally fixed in this irrational state.
• E is now furious at Marco for taking his name has almost forgotten about Rudi, he wants to revenge the insult. Even though it is himself who took his name.
• B stays by e. great moral dilemma, she’s always known that something bad would be the outcome of his love for c.
• Pg.61: C not only swears at e but challenges him. Her utter and pure hatred towards him is shown when she compares him to a rat in the rubbish.
• This scene is the total opposite of the start of the play – where everyone was happy; e is now throwing tables at c.
• Pg.62: b has always known that e has loved c and to try and stop someone from dying she puts her feelings into words.
• Pg.63: e and c are both disgusted. He actually physically cannot hold all these emotions in his head. He has never fully understood his feelings and now that they have been put into words he feels in agony. The idea of him wanting to violate his ‘Madonna’ breaks every value he has ever held dear.
• As in all classical tragedies this is E’s moment of recognition.
• Death is the only answer so he goes out in defiance calling for his name- the only thing he has left. He knows he is defeated but carries on.
• E’s feelings for c are so intense he has destroyed himself. Love is usually a positive emotion but when it is so intense and passionate it takes over.
• Pg.64: E’s death has ruined all their lives. Cathie and Rudi will have to get married with it hanging over them. Marco will go to prison and then back to Italy, b wills b the widow of a horrible man in a neighbourhood that never forgets.
• Cath forgives him in his death.
• She is so confused in a few moments so much has happened she is guilty, in disbelief and in turmoil.