He demonstrates these feelings early: as he arrives home from his work at the docks, accompanied by two fellow longshoremen, Catherine leans out the window and greets the men. Eddie's pronounced concern for Catherine's propriety masks a sexual infatuation with Catherine that will become pivotal over the course of the play. Eddie lives with his wife, Beatrice, and her orphaned niece, Catherine, whom they have taken in. Act 1: The play opens as lawyer Alfieri addresses the audience he begins to narrate the story of Eddie Carbone. The amount of scholarship that has been written on the play is extensive. Though initially unsuccessful, it has risen to become part of the American dramatic canon. A View from the Bridge is one of the most acclaimed of American plays, by one of America's most acclaimed playwrights. Their arrival sets in motion a chain of events that leads, unexpectedly, to Eddie's dramatic undoing. Told in two acts, Arthur Miller’s play A View from the Bridge (1955) tells the story of Eddie Carbone, an Italian American Longshoreman whose household is upended by the arrival of his wife's cousins from Italy.
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