Eddie's Jealousy

In a ‘View from the Bridge’ by Arthur Miller it is shown that fundamentally decent people can be destroyed by their own human fragility. Eddie, the protagonist in the play initially appears as a generous, hard working family man. Despite his general decency, Eddie’s weaknesses such as his jealousy, possessiveness and narrow minded abstinence result in his self destruction.
Eddies most prominent flaw, jealousy, plays a key role in the demolition of the originally ‘well rounded’ individual. Eddie becomes jealous of Rodolpho primarily for taking away Eddie’s sweetheart, his niece Catherine, but his envy for other factors of Rodolpho such as his singing, cooking and sewing skills is also evident.(insert quote). Throughout the text we watch as Eddie’s jealousy gnaws and meddles with his original values and we see the journey of how a simple jealous streak can turn a man to go against his traditional values and principles. This is shown as when
Eddie, originally being a respected man in the Brooklyn area ends up being insecure about other men looking and trying to take away Catherine from him. An example of where fatherly protection turns to possessive and controlling mannerisms is when Catherine is walking around the house in her new clothes and Eddie states “you give me the willies the way you walk...”. These feelings of possessiveness contribute to destroying Eddie as they are one of the driving forces behind Eddies dislike and spite towards Rodolpho which in turn cause his death. Eddie has an inability to let Catherine go and being a masculine figure finds it difficult to back down or release the feelings of ownership over Catherine. Eddie, once a caring father figure, was unable to release Catherine of his inventory which resulted in blood being released from his