A View from the Bridge

Question 1

lawyers, laws, blah blah blah

Answer 1

“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.”

Question 2

just vs unjust

Answer 2

Alfieri: “Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men. Justice is very important here.” (1.1)

Question 3

the equivalent of semi-skimmed milk

Answer 3

Alfieri: “Now we settle for half, and I like it better.” (1.1)

Question 4

Alfieri and the feds

Answer 4

Alfieri: “I kept wanting to call the police, but […] Nothing at all had really happened.” (2.86)

Question 5

Marco being all Italian

Answer 5

Marco: “In my country [Eddie] would be dead now.” (2.241)

Question 6

wheres the law, Marco?

Answer 6

Marco: “All the law is not in a book.” (2.257)

Question 7

only who?

Answer 7

Alfieri: “Only God, Marco.”

Question 8

heels are hard to walk in, ok?!

Answer 8

“Katie you are walkin’ wavy! I don’t like the looks they’re givin you […] The heads are turnin’ like windmills.” (1.26)

Question 9

a big old phallic image

Answer 9

[Stage Direction:] [Catherine] strikes a match and holds it to [Eddie’s] cigar.

Question 10

B is missing the sex

Answer 10

Beatrice: “When am I going to be a wife again, Eddie?”

Question 11

Eddie’s possessed

Answer 11

Alfieri: “ it was only a passion that had moved into his body, like a stranger.” (1.508)

Question 12

Eddie speaking in oxymorons

Answer 12

Eddie: “it might be a little more free here but it’s just as strict.” (1.620)

Question 13

Eddie getting randy

Answer 13

[Stage Direction:] as [Catherine] strives to free herself [Eddie] kisses her on the mouth. (2.73)

Question 14

Eddie getting homoerotically randy

Answer 14

[Stage Direction:] Eddie pins [Rodolpho’s] arms, laughing, and suddenly kisses him. (2.81)

Question 15

Eddie on a guilt trip

Answer 15

Eddie: “And then you’ll move away. […] That’s life. And you’ll come visit on Sundays, then once a month, then Christmas and New Year’s, finally.” (1.130-132)

Question 16

Rodolpho sings paper doll

Answer 16

Rodolpho: “I’ll tell you boys it’s tough to be alone, And it’s tough to love a girl that’s not your own […] I’m gonna buy a paper doll that I can call my own, A doll that other fellows cannot steal.” (1.308)

Question 17

Katie: yeah, running away from YOU!

Answer 17

Eddie: “You’re runnin’, Katie. I don’t think you listening any more to me.” (1.430)

Question 18

know in the Biblical Sense?!

Answer 18

Catherine: “I know him and now I’m supposed to turn around and make a stranger out of him?” (2.57)

Question 19

you’ve been a baby up until now Catherine, but will you be any more?

Answer 19

Catherine: “Eddie, I’m not gonna be a baby anymore!” (2.73)

Question 20

what, an invitation to your wedding? I’d be honoured!

Answer 20

Catherine: “I’m gonna get married, Eddie. So if you wanna come, the wedding will be on Saturday.” (2.166)

Question 21

why should i take the IB Eddie?

Answer 21

Eddie: “You’ll never get nowheres unless you finish school.” (1.85)

Question 22

What sort of people Eddie?

Answer 22

Eddie: “I want you to be with a different kind of people.

Question 23

You going big places, Eddie?

Answer 23

Alfieri: “Eddie Carbone had never expected to have a destiny.” (1.326)

Question 24

Just Catherine, dreaming of marrying someone other than Eddie (sigh)

Answer 24

Catherine: “Cause I always dreamt that when I got married, he would be happy at the wedding, and laughin.” (2.50)

Question 25

When moving makes you more civilised

Answer 25

Alfieri: “But this is Red Hook, not Sicily. […] now we are quite civilized, quite American.” (1.1)

Question 26

What will this be, Rodolpho?

Answer 26

Rodolpho: “This will be the first house I ever walked into in America! Imagine! She said they were poor!” (1.203)

Question 27

Citrus fruit is soooo exciting

Answer 27

Catherine: “They got oranges on the trees where he comes from, and lemons. Imagine – on the trees?” (2.419)

Question 28

Suddenly Italy is civilised

Answer 28

Rodolpho: “You think we have no tall buildings in Italy? No wide streets? No flags? No automobiles?” (2.45)

Question 29

Why be an American?

Answer 29

Rodolpho: “I want to be an American so I can work.” (2.45)

Question 30

When you get named after a song

Answer 30

Eddie: “I’m ashamed. Paper Doll they call him. Blondie now.” (1.543)

Question 31

katie- I am your father

Answer 31

Eddie: “Katie…if you wasn’t an orphan, wouldn’t he ask your father’s permission before he run around with you like this?” (1.443)

Question 32

what do you want?

Answer 32

Eddie: “I want my respect!” (2.122)

Question 33

Which one Marco?

Answer 33

Marco: “That one! [Eddie] He killed my children! That one stole the food from my children!” (2.223)

Question 34

Alfieri’s mixed morals

Answer 34

Alfieri: “To promise not to kill is not dishonorable.” (2.252)

Question 35

nobody x3

Answer 35

Catherine: “You [Eddie] got no right to tell nobody nothin’. Nobody! The rest of your life, nobody!” (2.283)

Question 36

Say it again Eddie!

Answer 36

Eddie: “Eddie Carbone. Eddie Carbone. Eddie Carbone.” (2.322)

Question 37

Eddie’s equivalent of the ‘got your nose joke’

Answer 37

Eddie: “I want my name! […] Marco’s got my name.” (2.309)

Question 38

he aint wrong, either

Answer 38

Eddie: “The guy ain’t right.” (1.527)

Question 39

Eddie’s angelic, if slightly homoerotic, reaction to Rodolpho

Answer 39

Eddie: “He looked so sweet there, like an angel – you could kiss him he was so sweet.” (1.541)

Question 40

Fighting talk from Eddie

Answer 40

Eddie: “Come on show me! What’re you gonna be? Show me!” (2.80)

Question 41

Eddie knows how to make a house feel like a home

Answer 41

Eddie: “I mean I got a couple rights here.[…] This is my house here not their house.” (2.120)

Question 42

Eddie is an animal and should act like one

Answer 42

Marco: “Animal! You [Eddie] go on your knees to me!” (2.328)

Question 43

baby, baby, baby, o-oh

Answer 43

Catherine: “He still thinks I’m a baby.”
Beatrice: “Because you think you’re a baby.” (1.483-484)

Question 44

Beatrice wants her husband back from Catherine

Answer 44

Beatrice: “You’re a woman […] and now the time came when you said goodbye.” (1.504)

Question 45

Rodolpho wouldn’t fare well on d of e

Answer 45

Rodolpho: “You think I would carry on my back the rest of my life a woman I didn’t love just to be an American?” (2.45)

Question 46

and If I were a boy I would want to be Eddie

Answer 46

Catherine: “If I was a wife I would make a man happy instead of goin’ at him all the time.” (2.57)

Question 47

Catherine’s moving from one father figure to another

Answer 47

Rodolpho, clasping her to him: “Oh, my little girl.”

Catherine: Teach me. […] I don’t know anything, teach me, Rodolfo, hold me. (2.60-61)

Question 48

A wife is supposed to have equal rights

Answer 48

Eddie: “A wife is supposed to believe the husband.” (2.144)

Question 49

Think Megan in her portrait

Answer 49

“With your hair that way you look like a madonna, you know that?” (1.126)

Question 50

Eddie’s last words

Answer 50

“Oh, B.!” (2.333)

Question 51

Red Hook sounds more like a Red mullet

Answer 51

“this is Red Hook […] This is the slum that faces the bay on the seaward side of Brooklyn Bridge. This is the gullet of New York swallowing the tonnage of the world” (1.1).

Question 52

Hustle

Answer 52

“In the worst times […] I didn’t stand around lookin’ for relief – I hustled. When there was empty piers in Brooklyn I went to Hoboken, Staten Island, the West Side, Jersey, all over” (1.564).

Question 53

Walking hungry

Answer 53

“I took out of my own mouth to give to her. […] I walked hungry plenty days in this city!” (1.564)

Question 54

What does Alfieri say, insinuating that Eddie is in love with Catherine?

Answer 54

Alfieri says to him, “She can’t marry you can she?” (1.567), and Eddie furiously responds, “I don’t know what the hell you’re talkin’ about!” (1.568)

Question 55

What does Beatrice say, insinuating that Eddie is in love with Catherine?

Answer 55

“You want somethin’ else, Eddie, and you can never have her!” (2.316

Question 56

Eddie depriving B in favour of Catherine

Answer 56

“I took out of my wife’s mouth […] to give to her” (1. 564).

Question 57

Alfieri’s parting thoughts

Answer 57

“And so I mourn [Eddie] – I admit it – with a certain…alarm” (2.336)

Question 58

Why Catherine is Eddie’s perfect gal

Answer 58

“I can tell a block away when he’s blue in his mind and just wants to talk to somebody quiet and nice” (2.57).

Question 59

Rodolpho giving fair, if not the nicest to hear, responses to Catherine

Answer 59

I will not marry you to live in Italy. I want you to be my wife, and I want to be a citizen” (2.43).

Question 60

Marco is an animal

Answer 60

“He’s a regular bull” (1.390). Louis goes on to add, “He’s a regular slave” (1.392).

Question 61

Catherine’s reactions to Eddie’s kiss

Answer 61

Beatrice says that Catherine, “goes around shaking all the time, she can’t go to sleep!” (2.129).

Question 62

Marco raises the chair…

Answer 62

Marco raises the chair “like a weapon over Eddie’s head” (1.691).