You gotta give him to understand that he can’t give you orders no more. Beatrice is the one who encourages Catherine to stop with her childish behavior’. The relationship between Beatrice and Eddie, even though is full of tension noticeable during most of the first and second act, it can really show us how important Beatrice really is in the play and how her everlasting loyalty ended up giving redemption to Eddie as he notices her importance. This is a tool that Arthur Miller created to effectively foreshadow the future of Eddie as a tragic hero, and how he ended up betraying his whole community as Vinny Bolzano did.Įddie’s and Beatrice’s relationship create a structure to the play. This is shown when Eddie, while talking about Catherine about the community tells her an anecdote about a boy called Vinny Bolzano who betrayed his own family and was punished hard by the community “never be(ing) seen no more” after being hardly punished by his father and brother. At this specific time, the immigrant communities had their own point of view of and law, following a strict code of silence and protection for the illegal immigrants on the community. Miller uses several references to Manhattan in the 1950s and the Italian community to set us in time and place. A view from the bridge setting offers an opportunity to see how important loyalty can be in certain communities.
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