A View From the Bridge Quotes

Question 1

Alfieri creating tragic inevitability about death

Answer 1

Alfieri - ‘Sat there as powerless as I and watched it run its bloody course.’ A1

Question 2

Eddie showing possessiveness over Catherine

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Beatrice’s domesticity

Answer 3

Beatrice - ‘I didn’t even buy a new tablecloth; I was gonna wash the walls.’ A1

Question 4

Eddie + Catherine’s uncomfortable relationship

Answer 4

Eddie - ‘With your hair that way you look like a Madonna, you know that?’

Question 5

Graphic detail of Vinny Bolsano story

Answer 5

Beatrice - ‘They grabbed him in the kitchen and pulled
him down the stairs – three flights his head was bouncin’ like a
coconut.’ A1

Question 6

Marco’s loyalty to his family

Answer 6

Marco - ‘I want to send right away maybe twenty dollars’ A1

Question 7

Eddie’s view that Rodolfo is gay

Answer 7

Eddie - ‘He’s like a weird’/ ‘that wacky hair.. like a chorus girl.’ A1

Question 8

Quote showing Marco’s masculinity

Answer 8

Eddie - ‘Marco goes around

like a man; nobody kids Marco.’ A1

Question 9

Quote showing breakdown of Eddie and Beatrice’s marriage

Answer 9

Beatrice - ‘When am I gonna be a wife again, Eddie?’

Question 10

Other’s perception of Marco and Rodolfo

Answer 10

Mike ‘ The older one, boy, he’s a regular bull.’

Cf.. of R ‘he’s got a sense of humour’. A1

Question 11

Beatrice’s criticisms of Catherine and Eddie’s relationship.

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Alfieri again showing tragic inevitability.

Answer 12

Alfieri - ‘I could see every step coming, step after step, like a dark figure walking down a hall toward a certain door.’ A1

Question 13

Eddie’s naïvity

Answer 13

Eddie - ‘I heard that

they paint the oranges to make them look orange.’ A1

Question 14

Eddie’s premonition of revealing the submarine’s presence.

Answer 14

Eddie - ‘Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.’ A1

Question 15

Alfieri’s description of Eddie the first time they meet.

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Catherine’s desire to escape Eddie

Answer 16

Catherine - ‘Suppose I wanted to live in Italy.’ A2

Question 17

Catherine brags about her close relationship with Eddie

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Eddie’s crisis of masculinity kissing Rodolfo

Answer 18

Eddie pins his arms, laughing, and suddenly kisses him.

Question 19

Alfieri warns Eddie

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Eddie spontaneously brings up marriage problems

Answer 20

Eddie - ‘What I feel like doin’ in the bed and what I don’t feel like doin’ ‘ A2

Question 21

Beatrice discovers Eddie’s call.

Answer 21

Beatrice - ‘My God, what did you do?’ A2

Question 22

Marco publicly accuses Eddie.

Answer 22

Marco - ‘That one stole the food from my children.’ A2

Question 23

Idea of social justice instead of justice from the state

Answer 23

Marco - ‘All the law is not in a book.’ A2

Question 24

Eddie’s obsession with how other percieve him

Answer 24

Eddie - ‘I want my respect, Beatrice.’ / ‘I want my name.’

Question 25

Idea of collective responsibility for Eddie’s actions

Answer 25

Beatrice - ‘Whatever happened we all done it, and don’t you ever forget it, Catherine.’ A2

Question 26

Beatrice calls out Eddie’s relationship with Catherine

Answer 26

Beatrice - ‘You want somethin’ else, Eddie, and you can never have her!’. A2

Question 27

Eddie’s last words

Answer 27

Eddie - ‘My B!’ A2

Question 28

End of the play

Answer 28

Alfieri - ‘And so I mourn him – I admit it – with a certain… alarm.’ A2

Question 29

Eddie after the fight with Rodolfo

Answer 29

Eddie - ‘Did i hurt you kid?’

Question 30

stage direction of Catherine’s reaction to Eddie’s dissproval

Answer 30

‘almost in tears.’

Question 31

rodolfo as a theif

Answer 31

he take and put his hands on her like a goddam theif A2