A view from the bridge is set in New York City in the 1950s. :: English Literature

A view from the bridge is set in New York City in the 1950s. Arthur Miller was born October seventeenth 1915 in New York City. His parentswere both immigrants in the United States and were originally fromSicily. Arthurs father had a successful business but it collapsed,along with the American economy as a whole,Following the Wall Street crash, as a result, Arthur had to work as awarehouseman in order to save his fees originally he was able to go toMichigan University in 1934 to study Economics and History. I call in hehas the same background The view from the bridge.A view from the bridge is set in New York City in the 1950s, with aSicilian background. Sicily is the home of all the characters which isan island in Italy. The characters change from old valet Sicily to newworld America in the agree. Sicily had been invaded a lot of times bydifferent countries, so this made the Sicilian people develop aculture of not talking or reporting to the authority, so the people ofSicily deal t with their own problems between their communities. Sicilywas a very poor country after ww2 because Italy scattered the war in 1948.A view from the bridge has a theme of old world Sicily and new worldAmerica, there is a lot of masculine and famine emotion between thecharacters. The characters brought their culture with them from Sicilyto America and one of their main rules never to broken is dont snitchto authority, the worst crime a Sicilian can do is snitch to theauthority and Sicilians either kill the person for snitching orreject the person from the Sicilian community. I think the daybookevolved around the Sicilian culture. Incest is another theme of thebook because Rodolfo and Catherine are in respect even do there cousins ,Eddie began to get attracted to Catherine who was his niece andother themes in this book is obsession, desire and control.Beatrice meant a lot at first to Eddie but when he was starting toloose Catherine, Beatrice knew that Eddie is attracted to Catherin e ina different way from just family love but loved her in a sexual way Ithink Beatrice became jealous of Catherine because Eddie was playingmore attention to Catherine and forgot all about her, I think this challenged Eddies masculinity because he wasntperforming in bed and controlling his marriage like a masculine manshould do.I think the most dramatic scenes in the play is when Eddiesmasculinity is challenged and the Sicilian way of life is being