A View From A Bridge Flashcards
(40 cards)
Eddie to Catherine - “you’re walkin’…
…wavy”
Eddie to Catherine - “you’re a…
…baby”
Marco (talking about wife) - “I want to send…
…right away maybe twenty dollars”
Rodolpho (about Marco) - “he trusts…
…his wife”
Eddie to Catherine - “Katie, you’re walkin’ wavy! I don’t…
…like the looks they’re givin you…the heads are turnin like windmills”
Eddie about Rodolpho - “the guy…
…ain’t right”
Eddie to Rodolpho - “Come on show me!…
…what’re you gonna be? Show me!”
Alfieri - “I kept wanting to…
…call the police, but…nothing at all had really happened”
Marco - “In my country…
…he would be dead now”
Marco - “All the law…
…is not in a book”
Marco - “he degraded my brother…
…my blood. He robbed my children. Where is the law for that?
ALFIERI: There is none”
Eddie - “I can’t talk about it”
Eddie can’t talk to Alfieri about his unnatural feeling for Catherine, acknowledges that it is wrong but he can’t change his feelings
Eddie to Alfieri - “you mean to tell me that there’s no law…
…that a guy which he ain’t right can go to work and marry a girl and…?”
Eddie to Beatrice - “What’re you talking about…
…marry me! I don’t know what the he’ll you’re talkin about!”
Beatrice - “When am I gonna…
…be a wife again, Eddie?”
Beatrice to Eddie - “you gonna keep her…
…in the house all her life?”
Beatrice to Catherine - “you’re not a…
…baby anymore”
Rodolpho to Catherine - “you think I would carry…
…on my back the rest of my life the woman I didn’t love just to be an American?”
Catherine to Eddie - “I’ll kill you!”
Finally realises what Eddie is doing is wrong, sticks up for Rodolpho. Now Rodolpho is more important to her than Eddie
Alfieri - “his eyes were…
…like tunnels”
Alfieri to Eddie - “morally and legally…
…you have no rights”
Alfieri - “you won’t have a…
…friend in the world, Eddie!”
Catherine to Eddie - “he’s a rat!…
…he belongs in the sewer!”
Beatrice to Eddie - “You want something else…
…and you can never have her”
