A View From the Bridge

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at, and when I think of that guy layin’ his hands on her I could- I mean it’s eatin’ me out Mr Alfieri, because I struggled for that girl. And now he comes in my house and-”. Eddie’s frustration is embodied in these lines. He feels a desperation which he cannot fully verbalise but it is possible that the audience can sense what he is saying- that Catherine is rejecting Eddie who is a real man that “struggled” for her, unlike this effeminate boy. Here, Miller describes Eddie as a man, who is too proud, and cannot show emotion or put into words what he feels. We the readers know this as a fact through the play’s action and stage directions. In the conversation with Alfieri, Eddie ‘with a helpless but ironic gesture’ begins to show his true colours as he gets angry. From the moment that Eddie begins to converse in this way, it is clearly evident that this characteristic is one of the main reasons which leads to his downfall. A typical tragedy protagonist is reflected here, unable ...

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