A View From the Bridge Quotes Flashcards
Alfieri creating tragic inevitability about death
Alfieri - ‘Sat there as powerless as I and watched it run its bloody course.’ A1
Eddie showing possessiveness over Catherine
Eddie - ‘I think its too short ain’t it?’ / ‘What are the heels for Garbo?’ / ‘DOnt like the looks they are giving you in the candy store.’ A1
Beatrice’s domesticity
Beatrice - ‘I didn’t even buy a new tablecloth; I was gonna wash the walls.’ A1
Eddie + Catherine’s uncomfortable relationship
Eddie - ‘With your hair that way you look like a Madonna, you know that?’
Graphic detail of Vinny Bolsano story
Beatrice - ‘They grabbed him in the kitchen and pulled
him down the stairs – three flights his head was bouncin’ like a
coconut.’ A1
Marco’s loyalty to his family
Marco - ‘I want to send right away maybe twenty dollars’ A1
Eddie’s view that Rodolfo is gay
Eddie - ‘He’s like a weird’/ ‘that wacky hair.. like a chorus girl.’ A1
Quote showing Marco’s masculinity
Eddie - ‘Marco goes around
like a man; nobody kids Marco.’ A1
Quote showing breakdown of Eddie and Beatrice’s marriage
Beatrice - ‘When am I gonna be a wife again, Eddie?’
Other’s perception of Marco and Rodolfo
Mike ‘ The older one, boy, he’s a regular bull.’
Cf.. of R ‘he’s got a sense of humour’. A1
Beatrice’s criticisms of Catherine and Eddie’s relationship.
Beatrice - ‘ You walk around in front of him in your slip.’/ ‘It’s wonderful for a whole family to love each other, but you’re a grown woman and you’re in the same house with a grown man.’ A
Alfieri again showing tragic inevitability.
Alfieri - ‘I could see every step coming, step after step, like a dark figure walking down a hall toward a certain door.’ A1
Eddie’s naïvity
Eddie - ‘I heard that
they paint the oranges to make them look orange.’ A1
Eddie’s premonition of revealing the submarine’s presence.
Eddie - ‘Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.’ A1
Alfieri’s description of Eddie the first time they meet.
Alfieri - ‘His eyes were like tunnels; my first thought was that he had committed a crime, but soon I saw it was only a passion that had moved into his body, like a stranger.’ A1
Catherine’s desire to escape Eddie
Catherine - ‘Suppose I wanted to live in Italy.’ A2
Catherine brags about her close relationship with Eddie
Catherine - ‘I can tell a block away when he’s blue in his mind and just wants to talk to somebody quiet and nice.’ A2
Eddie’s crisis of masculinity kissing Rodolfo
Eddie pins his arms, laughing, and suddenly kisses him.
Alfieri warns Eddie
Alfieri - ‘You won’t have a friend in the world, Eddie! Even those who understand will turn against you, even the ones who feel the same will despise you!’ A2
Eddie spontaneously brings up marriage problems
Eddie - ‘What I feel like doin’ in the bed and what I don’t feel like doin’ ‘ A2
Beatrice discovers Eddie’s call.
Beatrice - ‘My God, what did you do?’ A2
Marco publicly accuses Eddie.
Marco - ‘That one stole the food from my children.’ A2
Idea of social justice instead of justice from the state
Marco - ‘All the law is not in a book.’ A2
Eddie’s obsession with how other percieve him
Eddie - ‘I want my respect, Beatrice.’ / ‘I want my name.’
Idea of collective responsibility for Eddie’s actions
Beatrice - ‘Whatever happened we all done it, and don’t you ever forget it, Catherine.’ A2
Beatrice calls out Eddie’s relationship with Catherine
Beatrice - ‘You want somethin’ else, Eddie, and you can never have her!’. A2
Eddie’s last words
Eddie - ‘My B!’ A2
End of the play
Alfieri - ‘And so I mourn him – I admit it – with a certain… alarm.’ A2
Eddie after the fight with Rodolfo
Eddie - ‘Did i hurt you kid?’
stage direction of Catherine’s reaction to Eddie’s dissproval
‘almost in tears.’
rodolfo as a theif
he take and put his hands on her like a goddam theif A2
