A View From The Bridge-Arthur Miller
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Jo Hawkins
Assessment 2 Semester 1 1998
“A playwright with a social conscience”.
Analyse the ways in which Arthur Miller presents Eddie Carboni as a victim of
Brooklyn in the 1950’s.
In his play, A View From the Bridge ,(1955), Arthur Miller (1915-) portrays the
protagonist, Eddie Carboni, an uneducated Italian-American longshoreman, as a victim of
American society in the 1950’s. Set in Red Hook, an industrial area of Brooklyn, Eddie
lives with his wife, Beatrice and her sister’s child, his niece Catherine, of whom he is
unwittingly over protective. Life is hard but even until the arrival of two illegal
immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho, who are relatives of Beatrice. When Rodolpho forms a
relationship with Catherine, Eddie is threatened in a way he can neither articulate nor even
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