A View From the Bridge - Opening scene
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- Created on: 01-04-21 19:45
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- a view from the bridge - opening scene
- Alfieri's speech
- 'Now we settle for half'
- prepares us for the fact that Eddie won't compromise or give up what he wants
- 'its bloody course'
- foreshadows Eddie's death
- 'Now we settle for half'
- Eddie
- "(Eddie is pleased and therefore shy about it)'
- Eddie is very happy to see Catherine - almost giddy
- 'I think it's too short, ain't it?'
- Eddie doesn't want Catherine putting herself out there in front of other men
- 'You can't take no job. Why didn't you ask me before you take a job?'
- Eddie wants Catherine to stay under his roof and to rely on him for everything
- 'Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.'
- foreshadows the immigration scene
- Eddie lectures Beatrice and Catherine about Vinny Bolzano who betrayed his family, and yet Eddie does just this as a result of his obsession
- "(Eddie is pleased and therefore shy about it)'
- Catherine
- '(almost in tears because he disapproves)'
- Catherine looks up to Eddie and is upset when she doesn't please him
- shows is that she really cares about what Eddie thinks about her
- 'Here! I'll light it for you!'
- Catherine will do anything to make Eddie happy - even something as simple as lighting a cigarette
- '(almost in tears because he disapproves)'
- Beatrice
- 'I'm just afraid if it don't turn out good you'll be mad at me'
- Beatrice wants to make Eddie happy
- she wants the cousin's visit to be as good as it can be, even though they'd have to be cautuious
- '(She turns and grabs Eddie's face in her hands)'
- shows that Beatrice really cares about Eddie
- 'I don't understand you; she's seventeen years old, you gonna keep her in the house all her life?'
- Beatrice wants Catherine to grow up and to have her own life without Eddie and Beatrice
- 'I'm just afraid if it don't turn out good you'll be mad at me'
- Alfieri's speech
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