A Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge"
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A View from the Bridge
Arthur Miller
1955
Introduction
A View from the Bridge, by famed American playwright Arthur Miller, is a psychological family tragedy set in the largely Italian neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn. The play is retrospectively narrated by a lawyer, Alfieri, who makes clear from his opening monologue that the episode in question came to an unfortunate end. It revolves around a longshoreman—a laborer who loads and unloads docked ships— named Eddie, who must cope with two challenging transitions in his life: his beloved niece's reaching maturity and starting to make her own way in the world, and his wife's welcoming two Sicilian cousins to stay with them in a time of need. Despite having several interactions with Eddie, Alfieri can do little more than stand by as the dramatic tale unfolds.
As Miller related in other settings, the foundation for the play was a story told to him by a real-life lawyer in the Brooklyn waterfront area named Vinnie Longhi, about a man who found himself in precisely the situation described for Eddie. Initially shying away from the story, which he heard in 1947 and which seemed already too complete, Miller at last returned to it with the first one-act production of A View from the Bridge, which debuted at New York's Coronet Theater on September 29, 1955. Not entirely satisfied, Miller revised and extended the play, in part by changing monologues originally written in free verse or blank verse into prose, for a twoact production staged at London's Comedy Theatre beginning October 11, 1956. The original version is the one found in A View from the Bridge: Two One-Act Plays (1955). The two-act version, which is discussed here, is found in Miller's Eight Plays (1981) and other omnibus editions, such as The Penguin Arthur Miller: Collected Plays (2015).
Author Biography
Arthur Asher Miller Was Born On October 17, 1915, In Manhattan, New York City, To A Welloff Jewish Couple Who Lived In Then-Prosperous Harlem. His Father Owned A Coat-Manufacturing Business. The Young Arthur Was Not Inclined Toward Intellectual Pursuits, Preferring Almost Anything That Involved Physical Activity. He Enjoyed Playing Baseball And Football, Ice Skating, And Swimming, And By His Teen Years He Was Dabbling In Carpentry—Gaining Enough Skill To Build A Back Porch For His Family'S Home. The Family Moved To The Relatively Rural Midwood Area Of Brooklyn In 1929, As The Coat Business First Slackened, Then Collapsed Entirely With The Stock-Market Crash That Year. Common Labor Soon Became A Mainstay Of Miller'S Youngadult Life; Over The Next Few Years He Would Hold Jobs Ranging From Bakery Delivery Boy, Dishwasher, And Waiter To Warehouse Clerk, Truck Driver, And Factory Hand. After He Graduated From High School, He Took A Position As A Clerk, During Which Time He First Found Himself Engrossed In Literature—Starting, Of All Places, With The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky's greatest masterpiece. Miller suddenly felt that he was born to be a writer.
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