![]() ![]() He sends his earnings home to support his wife and tubercular children, and hopes to return someday. Marco cuts the figure of a traditional hard-working immigrant strong, quiet, and traditionally masculine. Though Marco and Rodolpho speak little English, they soon go to work unloading ships alongside Eddie. ![]() Although harboring them is illegal, the Carbone’s are honored to do it, not only for family loyalty but because they see as the right thing to do-helping the men escape the poverty of postwar Europe. ![]() The two immigrants have snuck into the United States on a freighter ship, without documentation. What makes this evening different is the news that Beatrice’s distant cousins, Marco and Rodolpho, have arrived from Italy and will be at their home soon. Eddie has unresolved feelings toward his niece, and his marriage to Beatrice is growing cold. Though all seems well, there is silent tension in the household. He and his wife Beatrice, both first generation Italian Americans, have no children of their own, but have raised their niece, Catherine, from girlhood. Eddie Carbone works as a longshoreman on the docks around New York, putting food on the table by the sweat of his brow. In a cramped tenement apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn, the Carbone family sits down for supper at the end of a long day. The poverty of an American working class family comes face to face with the sheer destitution of their immigrant cousins, desperate to make a new life. The limits of family bonds and personal honor are tested in Miller’s gripping tragedy, A View from the Bridge. ![]()
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