AVFTB

Question 0

Beatrice - who’s mad?

Answer 0

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

Question 1

Beatrice - she’s not a baby any more

Answer 1

“She’s [Catherine] no baby no more”

Question 2

Beatrice when Eddie makes Catherine take off her high heels.

Answer 2

‘She [Beatrice] gives Eddie a cold look, restrained only by the strangers’

Question 3

Eddie - he’s a nice kid?

Answer 3

“That’s a nice kid? He gives me the heeby-jeebies.”

Question 4

Beatrice when Eddie complains about Rodolfo being strange

Answer 4

“…you’re just jealous.”

Question 5

Beatrice about Rodolfo✔️☺️

Answer 5

“He’s a nice fella, hard workin’, he’s a good-lookin’ fella.”

Question 6

Beatrice when worried about her marriage and lack of intimacy.

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Alfieri has respect for Eddie because he was true to himself and stood up for what he believed in.

Answer 7

“Not purely good, but himself purely”

Question 8

Beatrice is intuitive and knows Eddie well.

Answer 8

“My God, what did you do?” (Realisation that Eddie called immigration)

“Let him eat first, then we’ll tell him” (knowing that he is easily angered and would be in a better mood after he has eaten)

“Was there ever any fella he liked for you?” (Knowing that Eddie is unhealthily obsessed with Catherine)

Question 9

Beatrice - you can’t have her

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Eddie accusing Beatrice of being different

Answer 10

“You used to be different, Beatrice. You had a whole different way.”

Question 11

Beatrice telling Eddie that Rodolfo is apologising (Peacemaker)

Answer 11

“Eddie, he’s apologizing!”

Question 12

Beatrice to officer (peacemaker)

Answer 12

“Who’re they hurtin’, for God’s sake, what do you want from them?”

Question 13

Beatrice cares about her family and being a motherly figure - wax walls etc

Answer 13

“I was gonna clean the walls, I was gonna wax the floors. (She stands disturbs)”

“My God, I don’t even have nothin’ to eat for them!”

Question 14

Beatrice - same chance of Rodolfo getting caught in daytime

Answer 14

“Yeah, but who is he in the daytime, though? It’s the same chance in the daytime.” (Clever and finds the fault in an argument. She deals with a situation well)

Question 15

Beatrice to Catherine about acting like a baby

Answer 15

“But if you act like a baby and he be treatin’ you like a baby”

Question 16

Beatrice to Eddie - wants it to be good to please him and cares about his opinion (loyalty)

Answer 16

“I’m just afraid if it don’t turn out good, you’ll be mad at me”

Question 17

Describes Eddie as ____

Answer 17

“Angel” when he explained to Beatrice why she shouldn’t be worried about the cousins coming to stay because it was such a great honour.

Question 18

Beatrice - garbage

Answer 18

“Then we all belong in the garbage. You, and me too.” (Loyalty to Eddie and shows that she knows all of their part in what has happened)

Question 19

Eddie’s last words

Answer 19

“Oh, B.! My B.!”

Question 20

The stage direction says this of B. when everyone else is leaving Eddie behind after hearing from Marco that Eddie was the one who called immigration.

Answer 20

“Only Beatrice is left on the stoop” (loyalty)

Question 21

Eddie accuses Beatrice of acting aggressively towards him lately.

Answer 21

“You didn’t used to jump me all the time […] It’s a shootin’ gallery in here and I’m the pigeon”

Question 22

Beatrice to Eddie about leaving Catherine alone.

Answer 22

“You going to leave [Catherine] alone? Or you gonna drive me crazy?”

(After Eddie has just argued with Catherine in the street over Rodolpho. He tells her that he only wants to marry her for American citizenship)

Question 23

Beatrice senses only the comradeship in Eddie when he is teaching Rodolfo how to fight.

Answer 23

“He’s teaching him; he’s very good!”

Question 24

Beatrice’s inner conflict with herself.

Answer 24

“(With a strange smile) you think I’m jealous of you, honey?” She doesn’t want to show her jealousy towards Catherine as she wants to remain the motherly figure in her life.

She also denies her anger towards Eddie because she wants to keep a brave face.

Question 25

Alfieri as a bridge

Answer 25

Miller tells us very little about him but that he lived in Italy until 25. Acts as a symbolic bridge between american law and italian sense of honour/ Represents and codifies the old and the new. Creates conflict for himself as an Italian lawyer who is forced to practice american law. Respects american legal system but loyal to his italian background. ➡️ understands values of immigrant community but he himself belongs in a more sophisticated world.

Question 26

Alfieri as a chorus in a Greek tragedy

Answer 26

• he serves as a chorus and provides much more than mere narrative back-up. - he establishes the inevitability of the tragedy. He powerlessly watches the tragic events unfolding before him. (“sat there powerless as i and watched it run its bloody course”)
• fairly inconsequential to the conclusion of the play.
• Alfieri’s certainty of disaster is clear to the audience. in chorus mode, he repeats ‘I knew, I knew then and there.’

Question 27

Alfieri’s relationship with Eddie.

Answer 27

• “I think I will love him more than all my sensible clients” admires Eddie’s passion and honesty
• wants to save Eddie from his fate but is powerless - eddie’s jealousy is described as “a trouble that would not go away”
• Alfieri is liberal and concerned when attempting to reason with Eddie however Eddie is never prepared to listen to him.

Question 28

Eddie’s unhealthy obsession with Catherine.

Answer 28

• overprotective, doesn’t want her to leave for a job “she’ll be with a lotta plumbers? And sailors?”
• quick to notice Catherine’s appearance; “Where you goin’ all dressed up?”, calls her “madonna”
• worries that other men will notice her “I’m tellin’ you you’re walkin’ wavy”
• submissive towards Eddie - eager to light his cigar for him to stop him from getting up and doing it himself. “Here! I’ll light it for you!”

Question 29

Catherine at the beginning is innocent, naive, trusting, childish, always seeking Eddie’s approval

Answer 29

“she sits on her heels beside him” - childish

‘Almost in tears because he disapproves’ - Eddie’s opinion matters to her

“I would just feel ashamed if I made him sad” - dependence on Eddie’s opinion is unhealthy as he makes her feel self conscious.

“embarrassed, now angered’ when Eddie tells her to take off her high-heels

“He was always the sweetest guy to me”

Question 30

Catherine standing up to Eddie/ against Eddie

Answer 30

“Eddie, I’m not gonna be a baby any more”

“He’s a rat! He belongs in the sewer!”

Question 31

Catherine to Eddie - I wish…

Answer 31

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

Question 32

Catherine’s growing maturity

Answer 32

her skirt is “too short” (Eddie)

Question 33

Chauvinistic

Answer 33

“Why don’t you ask me before you take a job”

Question 34

Eddie to Beatrice when she disagrees with him in an issue about Catherine’s work

Answer 34

“What do you know about it? You ain’t worked a day in your life”

Question 35

Alfieri is the first person to verbalise Eddie’s predicament

Answer 35

“She can’t marry you, can she?”

Question 36

Miller uses Alfieri in his role as a lawyer as a dramatic device.

Answer 36

He offers Eddie a lawful solution: he would get justice yet he would lose his honour. But Eddie says: “Oh, Jesus, no”

Question 37

After Beatrice told Catherine what’s up.

Answer 37

Stage direction: ‘she is at the edge of tears, as though a familiar world had shattered’

Question 38

Alfieri describes Eddie’s obsession as

Answer 38

“A passion that had moved into his body, like a stranger. “

Question 39

Alfieri when he tells Eddie he knows what’s up.

Answer 39

“There’s too much [love] and it goes where it mustn’t”

Question 40

Eddie describes Rodolfo as:

Answer 40

“he ain’t right”

“He comes around, everybody’s laughin’”

“weird”

“son-of-a-bitch punk”

“he takes and puts his filthy hands on her like a goddam thief!” / “he’s stealing from me!”

Question 41

Eddie thinking about Rodolfo laying a hand on Catherine.

Answer 41

“When I think of that guy laying his hands on her I could - “ Eddie is at his wit’s ends; he will do anything to prevent this, it seems as even his own family’s honour is at stake.

Question 42

Eddie about trust

Answer 42

“The less you trust, the less you’ll be sorry”

Question 43

Eddie when Marco spat on him.

Answer 43

Volatile - “I’ll kill you for that, you son of a bitch”

Question 44

Marco’s strong sense of justice and honour. He tells Alfieri:

Answer 44

“All the law is not in a book”

Question 45

Symbolism in the play

Answer 45

• shoes - Catherine growing up, maturing. Eddie notices.
• bridge/alfieri - bridge between American legal system and italian code of honour
• dancing (R and C) - symbolises R taking C away from Eddie. Intimacy, Eddie’s jealousy, provokes Eddie…leads to…

• the chair - dominance, protection over his brother, masculinity, strength, threat, rivalry. Marco wishes to demonstrate his physical superiority over Eddie.
➡️ stage directions: ‘the chair raised like a weapon over Eddie’s head’

Question 46

Marco and Eddie’s conflict

Answer 46

Marco believes it is dishonourable to let Eddie live, but has given his word not to kill him. However when Eddie pulled out a knife, it meant that Marco could see justice done, while also keeping his word.
➡️Eddie dies by his own hand literally and he metaphorically destroys himself over the course of the play

Question 47

When Eddie contemplates the betrayal, Alfieri reads his mind and repeatedly warns him:

Answer 47

“You won’t have a friend in the world…Put it out of your mind”

Question 48

To show she still cares for him, Catherine says to Eddie as he dies:

Answer 48

“I never meant to do nothing bad to you”

Question 49

Marco has lost all respect for and begins to despise Eddie. He says:

Answer 49

“Animal! You go on your knees to me!”