How does Arthur Miller present Eddie in A View From A Bridge

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Meetul Mehta        A View From A Bridge        Ms. Wright

How does Arthur Miller Present Eddie in “A View From A Bridge”? – Was Eddie to Blame for his own Death?

        Eddie Carbone is the main character in the play “A View From A Bridge” and I the character that I will talk about in the rest of this essay. The role of Eddie is very complicated, it is of an Italian American longshoreman who is ageing, with a loving wife and a beautiful niece, Catherine; but in his eyes that niece began to seem a little too beautiful. Fear begins to creep up on Eddie as he sees Catherine growing further and further away from him. This sense of loss triggers a large amount of lust in Eddie that caused him to react in the way he did. Relations between everyone and Eddie worsened when his wife’s (Beatrice) cousins, Marco and Rodolfo illegally entered US borders and hid in Eddies house. The younger cousin, Rodolfo and Catherine soon became infatuated, creating extreme envy in the eyes of Eddie. Due to this Eddie resorted to calling the immigration and taking away the cousins. Conditions exacerbated when Rodolfo married Catherine to stay in the country, and Marco was taken away and threatened to kill Eddie. Everything ended in a fight to the death between Marco and Eddie.

        In my opinion I do not think anything could have happened if Eddie did not have any problems with his life, wife and niece.

        The love between the relationship of Eddie and Beatrice was at its weakest, the flame had seemed to be put out. This occurred around the same time that Catherine had grown up and was of the right age to marry. Since then, Eddie acted differently around Beatrice, as though he weren’t interested in talking to her. My evidence of this is:

Beatrice – when am I going to be a wife again Eddie?

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Eddie  - I aint been feeling good. They bother me since they came.

Beatrice  - its almost three months you don’t feel good; they’re only here a couple a      

weeks. Its three months, Eddie”.

        : This shows the reader that Eddie and Beatrice haven’t had sex for a long time, and eddies excuse is that Beatrice’s cousins are annoying him. But that only accounts for the last two weeks; it does not excuse him from all of the time before. It is small conversations like these that show that their marriage is going down ...

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