Eddie - A View from The Bridge Main Characters
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- Created on: 22-03-16 17:49
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- Eddie Carbone
- CHARACTER
- Protective towards Catherine
- This soon becomes obsessive and unnatural
- Almost always in conflict with other characters.
- Jealous of Rodolfo
- EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE
- A Man of honour respect.
- Eventually breaks own code of honour by betraying M & R.
- By the end he loses everyones respect.
- Though he gains some dignity in his death.
- Protective towards Catherine
- Key Quotations
- "She's seventeen years old, you gonna keep her in the house all her life?"
- BEATRICE - He doesn't want Catherine to leave because of his complex emotions
- "He was good to me Rodolfo... he was always the sweetest guy to me."
- CATHERINE - Shows how Eddie was in the beginning before tragic fall. Direct Contrast to next quote.
- I want to report something. Illegal immigrants."
- EDDIE - the bottom of Eddie's tragic fall. He "rats" on M and R.
- "You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word you gave away."
- EDDIE - Foreshadowing his own fate when he tells the Vinnie Bolzano story.
- "He's a rat, He belongs in the sewer."
- CATHERINE - this shows how by the end he has lost the respect and love from everyone
- "She's seventeen years old, you gonna keep her in the house all her life?"
- Examiner's Tips
- AT BEGINNING he is strong, funny and a protective uncle.
- ARRIVAL OF RODOLFO causes his protectiveness to shift to obsession. He becomes angry and breaks the community code of honour
- Notice the disingtergration of Eddie's character until he is the shell of the man we see at the beginning.
- AT BEGINNING he is strong, funny and a protective uncle.
- CHARACTER
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