A View from the Bridge

A View from the Bridge is a two-act play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was first shown in 1956. The play is set in an Italian-American neighbourhood near to the docks of Red Hook in Brooklyn, New York. Its main character is Eddie Carbone, a working classThe social group composed of people who primarily earn a wage or salary by working for others, often in manual or unskilled occupations. docker. The play traces his unravelling after the arrival of Marco and Rodolpho, two of his wife's cousins from Sicily, Italy. Eddie is jealous the relationship that forms between his 17-year-old niece, Catherine, with whom he is obsessed, and Rodolpho. Eddie's jealousy drives him to report Marco and Rodolpho as illegal immigrants, making him a hated figure in his family and his community. At the end of Act 2, Eddie is killed in a fight with Marco. His jealousy therefore deprives him not just of his honour, but his life too. The play therefore replicates a Greek tragedy, in which the main character ultimately suffers a terrible fate driven by events that spiral out of their control.