Act 1

Question 1

talks about how justice is sometimes dealt with outside the law

Answer 1

“Justice is very important here.”

Question 2

He has a timeless story to tell, one that ran …. which he was powerless to prevent. He introduces the hero, Eddie Carbone.

Answer 2

“a bloody course”

Question 3

What does alfieris limes at the start tell us

Answer 3

He sets us up to expect a tale which can only end badly.

Question 4

quotes from alfieri at the very start

Answer 4

“Justice is very important here.”
“A bloody course “
“I am a lawyer “

Question 5

Eddies comment about the way Catherine was walking

Answer 5

“I’m tellin’ you, you’re walking’ wavy.”

Question 6

Eddies comment about Catherine’s late mother

Answer 6

“I promised your mother on her deathbed”

Question 7

Eddie feels his responsibility keenly and wants to be seen as a good father. He calls her a “baby” and is emotionally controlling.

Answer 7

“You’re a baby, you don’t understand these things.”

Question 8

Eddies disapproval for Catherine wanting a job

Answer 8

“You can’t take no job.”

Question 9

Eddies realisation Catherine is growing up

Answer 9

“I just never figured one thing. That you would ever grow up.”

Question 10

Type of girl Eddie describes Catherine as

Answer 10

“the Madonna type”

Question 11

Beatrice talking to Eddie bout Catherine working

Answer 11

“She’s gotta work sometime.”

Question 12

Beatrice trying to explain to Eddie Catherine is grown up now

Answer 12

“She’s no baby any more.”

Question 13

Rhetorical question asked by Beatrice to Eddie to make him realise he is being too strict

Answer 13

“You gonna keep her in the house all your life?”

Question 14

Beatrice telling Katie she shouldn’t care about eddies opinion

Answer 14

“Be the way you are Katie. Don’t listen to him.”

Question 15

Quotes that suggest loyalty to the community

Answer 15

“It never comes out of your mouth….”

“Just remember kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word you gave away.”

Question 16

Eddie seems generous as he invites the brothers to stay longer.

Answer 16

“It’s no skin off me”

Question 17

Catherine wondrously asking about the cousins skin colour

Answer 17

“How come he’s so dark and you’re so light, Rodolfo?”

Question 18

Eddie humiliates Catherine in front of Rodolfo by making her change her shoes

He mockingly calls her Garbo, after the film star. He controls how she dresses – like a conservative father and jealous admirer.

Answer 18

“What’s the high heels for, Garbo?”

Question 19

Beatrice is unhappy that Eddie has neglected her sexually. He claims he isn’t feeling well but later on we realise that Beatrice suspects the real reason is his attraction to Catherine

Answer 19

“everything ain’t great with me”

“When am I gonna be a wife again, Eddie?”

“It’s almost three months”

“You gonna stand over her till she’s 40?”

Question 20

Eddie Sounds more like a jealous boyfriend

Answer 20

I don’t see you no more.

Question 21

finding fault with Rodolfo.

Answer 21

“He don’t respect you”

Question 22

He is prepared to hurt Catherine’s feelings in his attempts to get rid of Rodolfo.

Answer 22

“Katie, he’s only bowin’ to his passport.”

Question 23

Eddie playing victim and making it about himself

Answer 23

“Don’t break my heart”

Question 24

Beatrice is telling her to start acting like a grown up. Beatrice encourages her to marry Rodolfo and defy Eddie. Beatrice hints at Eddie’s sexual feelings

Answer 24

“You’re not a baby any more”

“He’s not your father”

“You can’t act the way you act”

“Now the time come when you said good-bye”

Question 25

This hints at the anger and passion in Eddie’s eyes.
When speaking to alfieri

Answer 25

“ his eyes were like tunnels”

Question 26

Eddie is implying that Rodolfo is homosexual as he doesn’t conform to Eddie’s ideas of “masculinity”.

Answer 26

“The guy ain’t right, Mr Alfieri”

Question 27

when Alfieri refers to the illegal way the cousins enter the country, Eddie is shocked at the suggestion he would inform on them. It would be dishonourable.

Answer 27

“Oh, Jesus, no, I wouldn’t do nothin’ about that”.

Question 28

Emotive language revealing the strength of his feelings. Why thief? Does he see Catherine as an object which belongs to him and only him?

Answer 28

“he takes and puts his filthy hands on her like a goddam thief!”

Question 29

Eddie angrily rejects Alfieri’s implied suggestion that his concern for Catherine has gone beyond parental and is now sexual.

Answer 29

“What’re you talking about, marry me! I don’t know what the hell you’re talkin’ about!”

Question 30

Eddie is casting doubt on Rodolfo’s sexuality. By listing things he does

Answer 30

He sings, he cooks, he could make dresses …..

Question 31

Marco is warning Eddie to stop bullying Rodolfo. He is stronger than Eddie and at this point, Eddie starts to lose some of his power. This also foreshadows the confrontation at the end of the play.

Answer 31

“..the chair raised like a weapon over Eddie’s head ….”

Question 32

Catherine is desperate to be with Rodolfo and away from Eddie.

Answer 32

“I’m afraid of Eddie here”

Question 33

Catherine also points out that Beatrice is at fault too as she goes on at Eddie.

Answer 33

“Then why don’t she be a woman?”

Question 34

Eddie is shocked that Catherine and Rodolfo have slept together. Twice he tells Rodolfo to leave, and Catherine then decides that she is leaving too. She is making a stand.

Answer 34

“I just can’t stay here no more.”

Question 35

Alfieri warns Eddie to let Catherine go, that he can’t stop the wedding.

Answer 35

“The law is only a word for what has a right to happen”

Question 36

Eddie does the unthinkable, and phones the Immigration Bureau. He has broken his own code.

Stage Directions attract our attention to the phone and Eddie’s attention too

Answer 36

“The phone is glowing in light now”

“With greater difficulty”

“Slowly hangs up”

Question 37

Eddie does the unthinkable, and phones the Immigration Bureau. He has broken his own code.

Stage Directions attract our attention to the phone and Eddie’s attention too

Answer 37

“The phone is glowing in light now”

“With greater difficulty”

“Slowly hangs up”

Question 38

When he goes home, he blames Beatrice for everything.
He feels he has been let down by everybody.

Answer 38

“I want my respect”

Question 39

Marco denounces Eddie in front of the whole neighbourhood.

Answer 39

“That one! I accuse that one!”

Question 40

. Marco wants revenge, something very important to Sicilians.

Answer 40

“In my country he would be dead now”

Question 41

Eddie needs to get back his reputation
He bans Beatrice from attending the wedding.

Answer 41

“I want my respect”
“I want my name”

Question 42

[shocked, horrified, his fists clenching]
He still doesn’t understand his own feelings for Catherine when Beatrice finally confronts him with the truth.

Answer 42

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

Question 43

Again, Eddie cannot believe what Beatrice thinks of him.
He wants his reputation back, and wants Marco to apologise.
They fight, Eddie pulls out a knife – hardly sporting of him – but it is used against him and he dies.
Marco has not kept his word to Alfieri, but he has kept to his own code of honour.

Answer 43

(crying out in agony) “That’s what you think of me, that I would have such a thoughts?”

Question 44

His final words show how he realises that he has neglected his wife for something he could never have and was wrong to want. This is how a “tragedy” ends, the central character must learn his fault before his inevitable death.

Answer 44

“My B”