Implied Death Threat: At the end of Act 1, after Eddie punches Rodolpho, Marco demonstrates just how much stronger he is than Eddie by lifting a heavy chair above his head with one hand.Kissing Cousins: Hints at this, as Catherine marries her aunt's cousin.Foreshadowing: The story of Vinny Bolzano.
Against everyone's advice, Marco challenges Eddie after the latter stops the wedding before it starts. With the arrest, Eddie becomes a traitor and an outcast in the community, and Marco spits in his face.īut things aren't really working as Rodolfo is going to marry Catherine and become an American. Then, things get worse as Eddie betrays his family by calling the immigration police to get the Rodolfo and Marco deported and, more importantly, away from Catherine. Over time, with Rodolfo's presence, Eddie's feeling towards Catherine, once appearing paternal towards to start of the play, become greater until Eddie is so obsessed with keeping Rodolfo away from Catherine he begins to act wildly and self-destructively until, at Christmas, a drunk Eddie comes across the young pair and kisses Catherine passionately and Rodolfo in violent mockery. The younger is the flamboyant and blond Rodolfo, with whom Eddie's niece and surrogate daughter, Catherine, feels an instant attraction to. The older of the two cousins (who are brothers) is Marco, a responsible married man who came to America only to earn enough money to support his wife and sick child. Obligated by Italian family values, Eddie takes the two into his home where they live. Miller modelled it after a traditional Greek tragedy with the lawyer Alfieri acting as the Chorus equivalent and so the main character, Eddie Carbone, a longshoreman, succumbs to his fatal flaw and ultimately dies in a classic example of Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight.Įddie's wife, Beatrice, has two Italian cousins who have illegally arrived in New York. A play written by Arthur Miller in 1955, and set in Red Hook, Brooklyn during the 1950s.
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