Characterisation of Eddie Carbone Essay

Explore the tracks a central temper is presented in the drama text. Use examples from the text in your response. Eddie Carbvirtuoso, a 40 year old Italian Ameri give the axe Citizen from Sicily, is the tragic protagonist of A view from the Bridge by Arthur Miller. Alfieri, the chorus in the story, first introduces Eddie as a good, hard working man who does normal things like education a family, eating, getting old, etc. except as Alfieri states, no one give the axe know what his true self is like. Alfieri prepares us for the discovery of the secrets in the play.That two illegal immigrants Marco and Rodolfo are taking shelter in Eddies hearthstone and Eddies deep secret of his quasi-incestuous desire for his niece, Catherine. At first, Eddie is sh moderate as a good man who is happy and respected by his family. Eddie behaves like a normal, fairly overprotective uncle towards Catherine and the audience would probably not have guessed that he has any desire of her other than the specimen uncle and niece relationship. However it is not the standard uncle and niece relationship in Eddies mind but far much complex. The first sense of uneasiness we envision is when Catherine lights his cigarette.Eddie receives slightly kind of affected pleasure from this experience. A woman lighting a mans cigar can have a sexual implication and this is what Eddie see in Catherine. Knowing that Eddie has these tactile propertys, there are clues earlier back in the text to his obsession with Catherine. When Catherine sits on her heel beside him, he criticizes the length of her skirt. He doesnt requirement Catherine to look attractive in public because he is disordered that some man might ask her out. He hopes Catherine all to himself and does anything he can to prevent her from getting a boyfriend.Eddie also does not essential her moving out of his home. He wants Catherine always within his grasp. When Catherine tells Eddie that she got a spick-and-span job, he disapp roves straight away No no, you gonna finish school. What kina job, what do you destine? All of a explosive you-. He is very panicky and overturned by this information that Catherine is getting a job meaning that Eddie would see Catherine little which seem like a realistic reason for an uncle to be upset about, but knowing Eddies true intentions, he want Catherine to be near to him as close as possible.Eddies sexual legal opinions are also somewhat exposed during when Eddie and Beatrice argue. Although Eddie cannot yet grasp his own feelings, is seems like other character like Alfieri and Beatrice are aware of his post in Catherine Eddie What are you frantic at me lately? Beatrice Whos mad? Youre the one is mad. Eddie is referring to mad as in angry and enquire why Beatrice is cross with him. Beatrice responds by referring to the mad as in mentally insane and suggests that Eddie had lost his mind, which he eventually does.Eddie is also show to be a selfish natured and an untrustworthy man. He reminds Beatrice not to let her trite cousins sleep in his bed because the bed is his own property. This could link with the way that he feels about Catherine she is his personal property and that no one can use his personal property apart from himself. Eddies experience with life and work has led him to become untrusting of others. He advises Catherine the less you trust, the less you be sorry showing that Eddie has not trusted al commode of people in his life and that when he does, it turns out going wrong.This prepares us for the suspicion and distrust he has when Rodolfo arrives. Eddie becomes increasingly jealous of Catherines reside in Rodolfo. Catherine (enthralled) Leave him finish, its beautiful Catherine likes Rodolfo from the instant she met him and Eddie, aware of this is, wants Catherine to like him in the same way instead of Rodolfo. Eddie quickly comes up with an alleviate to stop Rodolfo from sing by evidenceing that you dont want to be picked up, do ya? which seems like a plausible reason if Rodolfo sings to a fault loud then someone might notice something strange and inquire.However Eddies true motive for preventing Eddie from singing is to stop Catherine from being stupefied by Rodolfo. Eddies green-eyed monster becomes further exposed as his tone is described as being puffed with trouble in the set up direction where Catherine is qualification Rodolfo coffee. He is jealous that Catherine is getting Rodolfo a befuddle when before Catherine was getting him a beer. Eddie state of mind is shown when Catherine is talk to Eddie after(prenominal) she has got back from Brooklyn Paramount with Rodolfo. Catherine has told Eddie that she likes him and the stage directions show hiswd reaction to this He looks at her like a lost boy.Eddie feels a sort of saddened jealousy but he is unable to realize this dishonourable emotion and unable(predicate) of admitting this to himself. He is indeed emotionally lost. Eddi es obsession with Catherine and his vindictive nature grows throughout the story. He tries to do anything he can to retch Catherine of Rodolfo. In his conversation with Beatrice, Eddie says to her that he is homosexual Paper Doll theyre callin him. Canary. Hes like a weird. Eddie is seek to make Beatrice and everyone turn against Rodolfo but ironically everyone turns on him.Eddie tells Catherine that Rodolfo exclusively likes her because he wants to reign an American citizenship by marrying her Katie, hes only bowin to his passport. Eddie is trying to make Catherine doubt Rodolfo but this is unsuccessful and ends up in Catherine distrusting Eddie. This ironlike obsession Edie has with Catherine did not just start when the cousins arrived but has been an ongoing parade from before. This is shown in Eddies conversation with Beatrice where she tells him that she has worries of her own When am I gonna be a wife again, EddieIts almost three months. Eddie and Beatrice have had no s exual affiliation for three months because all that has been on his mind is Catherine. snuggle the end of Act 1, Eddies is show to be violent and snappy hearted. He mocks Rodolfos skills in singing, making clothes and cooking and compares him to himself and say that this is no place for him. He is suggesting that he is not manly large to be here like him and that he should be in some other place. Eddie tries to supposedly teach Rodolfo boxing all of a sudden Well, come on. Ill teach youHowever Eddie knows that Rodolfo is weaker than he is and uses this as an allay to punch Rodolfo in the face and show everyone, especial Catherine, how weak Rodolfo is and to humiliate him however this had the opposite effect and exposes how sadistic Eddie can be. Eddies motives for his actions all bristle from his quasi-incestuous lovemaking for his niece. As Alfieri describes, His eyes were like tunnels, he can only see Catherine and no one else. He cannot understand why he only sees Catherin e but that is all he sees and refuses to let any feeling or any person enter that tunnel nd making sure that Catherine stays only in his tunnel and not anyone elses.Significantly, the spoken communication of the song Rodolfo sings, Paper Doll, symbolically reflects Eddies feelings for Catherine Its stout to love a doll thats not your own Im gonna buy a paper doll that I can call my own A doll that other fellows cannot steal. Figuratively, Eddie is the one singing the song and Catherine is the subject of the song, the doll, and that is has been stolen by someone Rodolfo. This song was carefully elect by Arthur Miller to act as an intimation of what was to come.Eddie is unable to hatch his true feelings but other characters have a clearer view than he does. Like Alfieri, who knows of his love for his niece and describes this as a cacoethes that had moved into his eubstance. This is significant because this metaphor is close to the truth of what has happed to Eddie this newly fo und passion of Catherine as grown over time and has became strong enough so that it fully controls his body, and is behind every action in Eddies life. Eddies first conversation with Alfieri shows that Alfieri knows his feelings sometimes even a daughter, and he neer realizes it, ut through the years there is too much love for the daughter, there is too much love for the niece. Do you understand what Im saying to you? But Eddie does not fully understand what Alfieri is saying, he think Alfieri mean love and in a Uncle and niece love, but Alfieri knows Eddies feeling and is talking about real physical love for Catherine. Eddie blindness towards his inward feeling and stubbornness in letting go of Catherine are Eddies tragic flaws that bring upon his downfall.