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Themes from a View from the Bridge. Amber Heaton. Jealousy. Throughout the play there is the theme of jealousy, starting with Catherine’s jealousy of other girls who’s parents/guardians don’t keep such a tight leash on them.
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Themes from a View from the Bridge Amber Heaton
Jealousy • Throughout the play there is the theme of jealousy, starting with Catherine’s jealousy of other girls who’s parents/guardians don’t keep such a tight leash on them. • Or Eddie’s jealousy of Rodolpho and Catherine being in love, when he secretly desires Catherine.
Love • As well as jealousy there is the theme of love through the entire play. • There is the basic family love between Catherine, Eddie and Beatrice, who have been a family for a long time and although Catherine is not Eddie and B’s own daughter they feel and act like she is, with Eddie saying, “ I broke my back payin’ her stenography lessons,”
Love • This shows that Eddie is saying that he only wants what is best for her as she is like his own daughter. B also feels the same way about Catherine yet she does not posses the same protection feeling that Eddie has over Catherine.
Love • Another type of love is the brotherly love between Marco and Rodolpho, that becomes apparent in the chair lifting scene when Marco threatens Eddie when Eddie “accidentally” punches Rodolpho too hard.
Love • There is also the Romantic love between Rodolpho and Catherine, with Rodolpho stating that he wouldn’t let Catherine live in Italy because he “would be a criminal stealing your face” meaning that he loves Catherine too much to take her to to live in poverty with him.
Family • The theme of family is presented in the play, especially family loyalty. • When Eddie tells Catherine the story of Vinny Bolzano, he empathizes the fact that after Vinny told on his uncle, his entire family shuns him and “they spit on him in the street, his own father and his brothers”
Family • When Eddie and Beatrice agree to allow Marco and Rodolpho stay in their house for a few months illegally this shows the theme of family loyalty again. • Though they have not met Marco and Rodolpho, they agree to let them stay and this is because Marco and Rodolpho are B’s cousin and that is what their community does for family.
Respect • In the second act, Eddie and Beatrice have a very tense conversation about the respect that Eddie thinks Beatrice should be giving him. Eddie states, “ I want my respect B”, and he is talking about the respect that Eddie feels that Beatrice has not been giving her.
Respect • After Eddie tells the immigration officers abut Marco and Rodolpho, Marco is furious because he knows that Eddie told on him. • After this, Eddie is desperate to “get my name back” which he feels Marco has taken from him by disrespecting him in front of the entire neighborhood.
Masculinity The theme of Masculinity is presented In the play in mainly two different ways. One way is Eddie’s suspicion that Rodolpho is gay, and how in his mind this is not acceptable and does not make Rodolpho a “real man”
Masculinity • The second way masculinity is presented in the play is how Eddie is constantly fight to be the “alpha male” in the family once Rodolpho and Marco arrive. In the past it was very easy for Eddie as whatever he said, B and Catherine would do and agree with.
