A View from the Bridge Flashcards

1
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lawyers, laws, blah blah blah

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“A lawyer means the law, and in Sicily, from where their fathers came, the law has not been a friendly idea since the Greeks were beaten.”

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2
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just vs unjust

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Alfieri: “Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men. Justice is very important here.” (1.1)

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3
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the equivalent of semi-skimmed milk

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Alfieri: “Now we settle for half, and I like it better.” (1.1)

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4
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Alfieri and the feds

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Alfieri: “I kept wanting to call the police, but […] Nothing at all had really happened.” (2.86)

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5
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Marco being all Italian

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Marco: “In my country [Eddie] would be dead now.” (2.241)

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6
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wheres the law, Marco?

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Marco: “All the law is not in a book.” (2.257)

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7
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only who?

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Alfieri: “Only God, Marco.”

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8
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heels are hard to walk in, ok?!

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“Katie you are walkin’ wavy! I don’t like the looks they’re givin you […] The heads are turnin’ like windmills.” (1.26)

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9
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a big old phallic image

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[Stage Direction:] [Catherine] strikes a match and holds it to [Eddie’s] cigar.

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10
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B is missing the sex

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Beatrice: “When am I going to be a wife again, Eddie?”

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11
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Eddie’s possessed

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Alfieri: “ it was only a passion that had moved into his body, like a stranger.” (1.508)

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12
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Eddie speaking in oxymorons

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Eddie: “it might be a little more free here but it’s just as strict.” (1.620)

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13
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Eddie getting randy

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[Stage Direction:] as [Catherine] strives to free herself [Eddie] kisses her on the mouth. (2.73)

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14
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Eddie getting homoerotically randy

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[Stage Direction:] Eddie pins [Rodolpho’s] arms, laughing, and suddenly kisses him. (2.81)

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15
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Eddie on a guilt trip

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Eddie: “And then you’ll move away. […] That’s life. And you’ll come visit on Sundays, then once a month, then Christmas and New Year’s, finally.” (1.130-132)

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16
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Rodolpho sings paper doll

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Rodolpho: “I’ll tell you boys it’s tough to be alone, And it’s tough to love a girl that’s not your own […] I’m gonna buy a paper doll that I can call my own, A doll that other fellows cannot steal.” (1.308)

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17
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Katie: yeah, running away from YOU!

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Eddie: “You’re runnin’, Katie. I don’t think you listening any more to me.” (1.430)

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18
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know in the Biblical Sense?!

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Catherine: “I know him and now I’m supposed to turn around and make a stranger out of him?” (2.57)

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19
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you’ve been a baby up until now Catherine, but will you be any more?

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Catherine: “Eddie, I’m not gonna be a baby anymore!” (2.73)

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20
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what, an invitation to your wedding? I’d be honoured!

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Catherine: “I’m gonna get married, Eddie. So if you wanna come, the wedding will be on Saturday.” (2.166)

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21
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why should i take the IB Eddie?

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Eddie: “You’ll never get nowheres unless you finish school.” (1.85)

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22
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What sort of people Eddie?

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Eddie: “I want you to be with a different kind of people.

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23
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You going big places, Eddie?

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Alfieri: “Eddie Carbone had never expected to have a destiny.” (1.326)

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24
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Just Catherine, dreaming of marrying someone other than Eddie (sigh)

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Catherine: “Cause I always dreamt that when I got married, he would be happy at the wedding, and laughin.” (2.50)

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25
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When moving makes you more civilised

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Alfieri: “But this is Red Hook, not Sicily. […] now we are quite civilized, quite American.” (1.1)

26
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What will this be, Rodolpho?

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Rodolpho: “This will be the first house I ever walked into in America! Imagine! She said they were poor!” (1.203)

27
Q

Citrus fruit is soooo exciting

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Catherine: “They got oranges on the trees where he comes from, and lemons. Imagine – on the trees?” (2.419)

28
Q

Suddenly Italy is civilised

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Rodolpho: “You think we have no tall buildings in Italy? No wide streets? No flags? No automobiles?” (2.45)

29
Q

Why be an American?

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Rodolpho: “I want to be an American so I can work.” (2.45)

30
Q

When you get named after a song

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Eddie: “I’m ashamed. Paper Doll they call him. Blondie now.” (1.543)

31
Q

katie- I am your father

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Eddie: “Katie…if you wasn’t an orphan, wouldn’t he ask your father’s permission before he run around with you like this?” (1.443)

32
Q

what do you want?

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Eddie: “I want my respect!” (2.122)

33
Q

Which one Marco?

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Marco: “That one! [Eddie] He killed my children! That one stole the food from my children!” (2.223)

34
Q

Alfieri’s mixed morals

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Alfieri: “To promise not to kill is not dishonorable.” (2.252)

35
Q

nobody x3

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Catherine: “You [Eddie] got no right to tell nobody nothin’. Nobody! The rest of your life, nobody!” (2.283)

36
Q

Say it again Eddie!

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Eddie: “Eddie Carbone. Eddie Carbone. Eddie Carbone.” (2.322)

37
Q

Eddie’s equivalent of the ‘got your nose joke’

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Eddie: “I want my name! […] Marco’s got my name.” (2.309)

38
Q

he aint wrong, either

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Eddie: “The guy ain’t right.” (1.527)

39
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Eddie’s angelic, if slightly homoerotic, reaction to Rodolpho

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Eddie: “He looked so sweet there, like an angel – you could kiss him he was so sweet.” (1.541)

40
Q

Fighting talk from Eddie

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Eddie: “Come on show me! What’re you gonna be? Show me!” (2.80)

41
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Eddie knows how to make a house feel like a home

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Eddie: “I mean I got a couple rights here.[…] This is my house here not their house.” (2.120)

42
Q

Eddie is an animal and should act like one

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Marco: “Animal! You [Eddie] go on your knees to me!” (2.328)

43
Q

baby, baby, baby, o-oh

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Catherine: “He still thinks I’m a baby.”
Beatrice: “Because you think you’re a baby.” (1.483-484)

44
Q

Beatrice wants her husband back from Catherine

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Beatrice: “You’re a woman […] and now the time came when you said goodbye.” (1.504)

45
Q

Rodolpho wouldn’t fare well on d of e

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Rodolpho: “You think I would carry on my back the rest of my life a woman I didn’t love just to be an American?” (2.45)

46
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and If I were a boy I would want to be Eddie

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Catherine: “If I was a wife I would make a man happy instead of goin’ at him all the time.” (2.57)

47
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Catherine’s moving from one father figure to another

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Rodolpho, clasping her to him: “Oh, my little girl.”

Catherine: Teach me. […] I don’t know anything, teach me, Rodolfo, hold me. (2.60-61)

48
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A wife is supposed to have equal rights

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Eddie: “A wife is supposed to believe the husband.” (2.144)

49
Q

Think Megan in her portrait

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“With your hair that way you look like a madonna, you know that?” (1.126)

50
Q

Eddie’s last words

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“Oh, B.!” (2.333)

51
Q

Red Hook sounds more like a Red mullet

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“this is Red Hook […] This is the slum that faces the bay on the seaward side of Brooklyn Bridge. This is the gullet of New York swallowing the tonnage of the world” (1.1).

52
Q

Hustle

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“In the worst times […] I didn’t stand around lookin’ for relief – I hustled. When there was empty piers in Brooklyn I went to Hoboken, Staten Island, the West Side, Jersey, all over” (1.564).

53
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Walking hungry

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“I took out of my own mouth to give to her. […] I walked hungry plenty days in this city!” (1.564)

54
Q

What does Alfieri say, insinuating that Eddie is in love with Catherine?

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Alfieri says to him, “She can’t marry you can she?” (1.567), and Eddie furiously responds, “I don’t know what the hell you’re talkin’ about!” (1.568)

55
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What does Beatrice say, insinuating that Eddie is in love with Catherine?

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“You want somethin’ else, Eddie, and you can never have her!” (2.316

56
Q

Eddie depriving B in favour of Catherine

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“I took out of my wife’s mouth […] to give to her” (1. 564).

57
Q

Alfieri’s parting thoughts

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“And so I mourn [Eddie] – I admit it – with a certain…alarm” (2.336)

58
Q

Why Catherine is Eddie’s perfect gal

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“I can tell a block away when he’s blue in his mind and just wants to talk to somebody quiet and nice” (2.57).

59
Q

Rodolpho giving fair, if not the nicest to hear, responses to Catherine

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I will not marry you to live in Italy. I want you to be my wife, and I want to be a citizen” (2.43).

60
Q

Marco is an animal

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“He’s a regular bull” (1.390). Louis goes on to add, “He’s a regular slave” (1.392).

61
Q

Catherine’s reactions to Eddie’s kiss

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Beatrice says that Catherine, “goes around shaking all the time, she can’t go to sleep!” (2.129).

62
Q

Marco raises the chair…

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Marco raises the chair “like a weapon over Eddie’s head” (1.691).