OPPapers.com

How Does Arthur Miller Expect

Question:
“And so I mourn him-I admit it-with a certain…alarm”

How does Arthur Miller expect us to react to the death of Eddie Carbone? In your opinion, does he succeed?

Eddie Carbone, the family guy, not wanting any trouble, just wanting his niece, in more ways than one.
Eddie was a family man, he kept his home nice and he looked after all his family and friends, there was a great respect for him and he was loved by many. Even the people against him, had to love him. He was popular among his friends and colleagues and he was sociable, going bowling with his friends is what his spare time was devoted to, that and his family.
Eddie’s view of his family was loving, he tried to give them everything, and he tried to hold them together, he was the glue that made them stick together when trouble came. There was only one thing that could dissolve the, the arrival of the two brothers. -
When Eddie dies, the audience is expected to feel sympathetic and upset for the loss of the main character. Alfieri enhances this feeling with words, in his final speech.
‘I think I will love him more than all my sensible clients’
This makes me think that Eddie wasn’t stupid, and he wasn’t a fool, he was just oblivious to the fact that Catherine was going to grow up, to love others but him, he couldn’t understand why this had to happen.
Alfieri has a great deal of respect for Eddie, like the other characters in the play.
When Eddie is killed by Marco in a fit of rage, he lies, dying in Beatrice’s arms, only then, does he realize what he’s got, and that’s Beatrice. He shows this by saying;
‘My B.!’
These are Eddie’s last words.
In Act one, Alfieri shares his view of Red Hook. How it used to be a violent town, with lots of fights and deaths, but over the years it has got more pleasant. People look out for each other.
‘I no longer keep a pistol in my filing...