1. A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
After the arrest
1. Why does Marco spit in Eddie’s face?
2. How does Eddie react to what Marco does? Why?
3. After Marco and Rodolpho are arrested, how does the neighbourhood treat
Eddie? (Use a quotation to support your answer.) Why?
4. Why does Marco want revenge so badly? (Give at least two reasons.)
5. Why does Bea agree not to go to the wedding?
6. Why does Catherine think Eddie has no right to tell Bea what to do?
7. When Catherine’s calls Eddie ‘a rat’, Bea defends him and says ‘then we all
belong in the garbage …’. What does Bea mean by this?
8. Why does Bea defend Eddie against Catherine, even though she’s criticised
him before? (Give at least three reasons.)
9. What is ‘the truth’ that Bea refers to?
10. What does Eddie’s reaction to this comment (about ‘the truth’) tell us about
him? (Support your answer with a quotation.)
11. How does Catherine feel when Eddie is stabbed? Make a table (with as many
rows as you need) to show the different feelings and attitudes she has
towards Eddie during this scene, up until the end of the play.
Catherine’s feelings about Eddie Evidence (example or quotation)
Questions 12–15
Make up four more questions about this last section of the play. They can be
about:
• what happens
• people’s feelings
• dramatic effect
• the changes we see in people’s relationships.
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