?Assignment Discuss how Manliness, Hostility and Aggression are featured throughout Arthur Miller’s play, A View from the Bridge. Response In "A View from the Bridge," protagonist Eddie Carbone, considers that a real man has to have certain qualities. One is to be a good breadwinner. For example, Eddie himself works in the dockyards and pays for his niece Cath’s schooling. In Act 1, he tells her she does not have to go to work yet: “I've supported you this long. I can support you a little bit longer.” However, Catherine wants her independence and to leave education to earn her own money and this causes disagreement between them when she wants to take up her first ever job offer. Eddie refuses to let her and Bea has to intervene on Cath’s behalf to get Eddie to back down. Another merit that Eddie thinks is needed for true manhood is to protect woman. Eddie gets aggravated because he thinks Cath has started walking wavy and he does not like the looks men are starting to give her. Whereas Cath sees this as possessive; therefore this causes conflict because she does not want Eddie to be possessive towards her. She becomes tearful and complains: “I don’t know what you want from me.” Furthermore, Rodolfo does not conform to Eddie’s image of masculinity. Eddie is scornful of Rudolpho’s high voice when he sings, skinny and feeble body, domestic skills and bleached blond hair. Rudolpho’s ‘feminine’ ways are so alien to macho Eddie that he implies to Alferio that Rudolpho is gay. He says of Rodolfo that ‘the guy ain’t right’ and is determined to use this issue to get him away from Cath. This leads to a desperate moment of dramatic tension when he pulls the sick stunt of kissing Rudolph in front of Cath. He is drunk enough to cross the boundary of rational behavior and his obsession comes out in a darkly aggressive way. Moreover, Rodolfo is not aggressive like the other men in the play and did not even fight bac