A Veiw From The Bridge
Submitted by mozammil on December 27, 2007
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The play opens in Red Hook Brooklyn, an Italian-American community, right on the New York City waterfront. Two longshoremen pitch coins against a building. Alfieri, a lawyer in his fifties, enters the stage and goes to his office that is visible on stage. After fixing some papers on his desk, he pauses and directly addresses the audience. Alfieri explains that he is a lawyer, born in Italy and that he immigrated when he was twenty-five years old. He describes the Red Hook neighborhood, the slums on the seaward side of the Brooklyn Bridge, where Sicilians will now settle for half (they are forced to accommodate Sicilian culture with American law)—he no longer keeps his gun in his filing cabinet. Although his wife has warned him that the neighborhood lacks elegance as it is filled with Longshoremen and their families, Alfieri reminisces about the rare cases, received every few years,...