Alfieri - A View From The Bridge
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- Alfieri
- Wise & Intelligent
- Alfieri: (crosses to behind Marco) No, Marco. You’re going
back.
- advises Marco to stay away from Eddie, not to fight and to be a civilized American
- Alfieri: (crosses to behind Marco) No, Marco. You’re going
back.
- Respected by some, feared by others
- (The two pitchers nod to him as he passes)
- Alfieri: ...We’re [lawyers] only thought of in connection with disasters, and they’d rather not get too close.
- Respects the law
- Alfieri: Now we are quite civilized, quite American. Now we settle for half, and I like it better
- This means that they no longer resolve feuds by violence like Al Capone did, they're American so they 'settle for half' of the justice they actually want
- Alfieri: You have no recourse in the law [to Eddie]
- Alfieri: Now we are quite civilized, quite American. Now we settle for half, and I like it better
- Conflict within him between traditional Italian ways and civilized America
- Alfieri: ... And so I mourn [Eddie] – I admit it – with a certain…alarm
- Alfieri: Only God makes justice.
- Wise & Intelligent
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