The Contrasting of America and Italy in A View from the Bridge :: English Literature

The Contrasting of America and Italy in A stance from the BridgeArthur Millers A View from the Bridge presents many different viewsof America, non only do you see America through the eyes of anImmigrant scarce also through the eyes of the regular working people, forinstance the longshoremen. deep down Alfieris speech, we obtain our first ideas of what America was comparable for Eddie, Beatrice and Catherine. The speech highlights,cultural connections Frankie Yale himself was concussion precisely in halfby a machine gasoline on the corner of Union Street this shows theinfluence and grip the Mafia had over American Culture in the 1950s.When describing the area, where Eddie and Beatrice live, he describesit as the slum that faces the bay which gives the impression, of arun down area where only the poor live. He uses the allegory the gulletof New York, swallowing the tonnage of the world. Which gives hearof a place that has boats glide path from all over the world laden withcargo and more. It gives Red Hook, the image of an unsightly place,where people have to work to their limit to feed and indorse theirfamilies.In my opinion Eddie, Beatrice and Catherine are there to show thetypical Italian American family of the 1950s. Their mark is whatmost of the longshoremen and their families would live in. It is onlya venial tenement flat. In the early section of Act One, Millercontrasts the flat, to the animation conditions in Sicily and SouthernItaly, he voices the comparison through Eddies response, toBeatrices worries about needing a new table cloth and cleaning theflat, which is listen, theyll think this its a millionaires housecompared to the way they live. This is showing, why there were somany immigrants coming into America, the existing conditions were somuch better than in their countries, even the poorest were living likeKings in the eyes of the immigrants.Catherine, I believe is symbolising the future, because she is theone, who wants to move on wit h her life, and become a stenographer andwork for a company. But Eddie, who put away believes in the archaic waysthat the man should do the working, tries to discourage her frompickings the job. In a way, Catherine being offered the job is showingthe American Way that anyone can get a job in America, even animmigrant.But soon the confabulation turns back to Beatrices immigrant cousinsand about the American Immigration Bureau. This gives the image of a soil full of rules and regulations, a place where there is law and