A View From The Bridge....
“A View From the Bridge” is written by Arthur Miller who was born in New York to a Jewish family. Miller worked in the Brooklyn shipyards for two years, where he befriended the Italians he worked alongside. He heard a story of some men coming over to work illegally and being betrayed. The story inspired ‘A View from the Bridge‘, which was written in 1950s but set in late 1940s.
The play is set in Red Hook, New York, Alfieri quotes “The slum that faces the bay on the seaward side of Brooklyn Bridge…the gullet of New York, swallowing the tonnage of the world“-the neighbourhood is very dangerous, it seems like a lawless place. Most of the people in the community are longshoremen working on docks( some legally and some illegally).
The neighbourhood has had a very bad and unforgettable past, Alfieri also quotes “oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjustly men” and tells us about two Italian gangsters, Al Capone and Frankie Yale ’ “Frankie Yale......
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