Eddie and Catherine are two important characters form the play "A View From The Bridge" by Arthur Miller. The play takes place in Brooklyn around 1950's. Catherine is an orphan who grew up with her aunt and her aunt's husband. She sees them as her parents. Eddie who is her aunt's husband is like a real father to Catherine. Eddie and Catherine's relationship changes from father and daughter to woman and man throughout the play. This change affects everybody around them and causes problems which ends tragically.
In the play there are several main stages that show us the changes in Eddie and Catherine's relationship. These stages are usually small incidents but each of them develops a new point to the relationship. The first point is on page 6 where Eddie starts commenting on Catherine's skirt then goes on to criticize her walk and her actions. In that conversation Catherine says, " "Eddie, I wish there was one guy you couldn't tell me things about!" This dialogue shows that Eddie has been overprotective before and Catherine has realized it. She does not say it seriously but rather, a joke; however she is actually trying to express that he's being too overprotective. Starting on page 10 there is the discussion of Catherine taking a job. Eddie is against Catherine working before she finishes school; but Catherine will finish school while she is working. She wants to work so she is trying to persuade Eddie to give his blessing. Eddie gives lots of excuses as reasons for Catherine not to work. First Eddie says "no" but then Beatrice talks to him and says something that makes Eddie change his mind. The important thing Beatrice said to him is: "I don" understand you; she's seventeen years old, you gonna keep her in the house all her life?" As we see in the stage direction Eddie gets insulted by the way Beatrice speaks to him. Afterwards Beatrice explains deeply what she means so Eddie changes his mind and tells Catherine that she can go to work.
