A View From The Bridge

Question 0

When is the play set?

Answer 0

Late 1940s

Question 1

Where is the play set ?

Answer 1

Red hook, Brooklyn, Nee York

Question 2

Who is the author of the play?

Answer 2

Arthur miller

Question 3

Where was Arthur miller born?

Answer 3

New York

Question 4

How is Alferi first shown in the play?

Answer 4

• a character on the play & narrator

- a thoughtful man who is sympathetic to the community he serves

Question 5

How is Eddie first shown in the play?

Answer 5

• an ordinary man
• Protective attitude towards Catherine
• strong family man

Question 6

Who says;

“You’re gettin’ to be a big girl now, you gotta keep yourself more, you can’t be so friendly, kid” ?

Answer 6

Eddie Carbone

Question 7

How is Catherine portrayed at the start of the play?

Answer 7

• lively
• attractive
• warm

Question 8

Who says;

“Eddie, I wish there was one guy you couldn’t tell me things about!” ?

Answer 8

Catherine

Question 9

How is Beatrice portrayed at the start of the novel?

Answer 9

-generous (let’s Marco and rodolfo stay with them)

Question 10

Who says

“I guess I just never figured on one thing…That you would ever grow up”

Answer 10

Eddie to Catherine

Question 11

Who speaks to Eddie about the problems they have has in their relationship and also about the fact that she no longer feels like a “wife”

Answer 11

Beatrice

Question 12

Who confronts Eddie about his feelings for Catherine?

Answer 12

Beatrice

Question 13

Who is upset when Eddie dosen’t approve of her clothes and behaviour

Answer 13

Catherine

Question 14

What does the stage direction indicate about Eddie?

‘Eddie rises and moves upstage’

Answer 14

That he is unsettled when Rodolfo sings

Question 15

Who says;
“A lawyer means the law and in Sicily, from where their fathers came, the law has not been a friendly idea since the Greeks were beaten” ?

Answer 15

Alfieri

Question 16

Alfieri speaks differently to the other characters, how?

Answer 16

He talks in an easy, conversational style,whereas the Carbones speak in powerful colloquial dialect that often hides more than it reveals.

Question 17

What does the story of Vinny Bolzano create?

Answer 17

It creates a basis for irony which will be created when Eddie turns informer himself later in the play

Question 18

Who says;

“I don’t care who sees them goin’ in and out so long as you don’t see them goin’ in and out”

Answer 18

Eddie

Question 19

Who says;

“Who’s mad? I’m not mad. You’re the one is mad.” ?

Answer 19

Beatrice

Question 20

Why is the relationship with Beatrice and Eddie complicated?

Answer 20

• sometimes they are comfortable with each other

- other times there is tension between them