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A View From the Bridge
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Did the Code of Omerta lead to the tragedy in 'A View from the Bridge?' The play is set in the 1930's in New York in a slum area called Red Hook. We can predict this because the temporal setting is between the 1920's and the outbreak of the war but as the war is not mentioned the setting must be late 1930's. It is about a family of Italian immigrants who host two illegal immigrants who are brothers. Eddie and Beatrice have but up Catherine since she was a baby and she is now seventeen. The play is about the changing relationships between these characters and the effect the brothers have on these relationships. The bridge mentioned in the title has many levels of meaning. First, it has literal meaning as it is a real bridge; Brooklyn Bridge in New York and it joins Manhattan to Brooklyn and Red Hook...
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