Eddie Carbone "He [Eddie] was a good man as he had to be in a

life that was hard and even" “husky, slightly overweight longshoreman” “there was a trouble that would not go away” “Make it nice and strong” “face puffed with trouble” “I don’t want to talk about it.” “His eyes were like tunnels” “The less you trust, the less you’ll be sorry” “He was as good a man as he had to be” “You can quicker get back a million dollars that

was stole than a word that you gave away.” “He is affected by her” “He’s stealing from me!” “Nobody is gonna talk to him again if he lives to

a hundred.” “You want somethin’ else, Eddie, and you can

never have her!” “Eddie, the knife still in his hand, falls to his

knees before Marco.” “something perversely pure calls to me from his

memory…he allowed himself to be wholly known”

Beatrice “It’s wonderful for a whole family to love each

other” “her criticising force” “I don’t understand you…you gonna keep her in

the house all her life?” “When am I gonna be a wife again, Eddie?” “she’s got too big a heart” “Eddie, I want you to cut it out now, you hear

me? I don’t like it.” “When are you going to leave her alone?” “Now we gonna be like it never happened” “It’s too late, Eddie” “The truth is not as bad as blood” “Whatever happened we all done it” “He dies in her arms.”

Catherine “walkin’ wavy” “kid” “baby” “Katie” “What’s the high heels for, Garbo?” “almost in tears because he disapproves” “She’s crazy to start work.” “You can’t be so friendly, kid” “You’re the Madonna type” “She could take care of herself” “You gotta be your own self more…you think

you’re a baby/” “He was always the sweetest guy to me.” “She loves him, Eddie.” “I don’t want nobody else”

“What’re you scared of? He’s a rat!” “Eddie, I never meant to do nothing bad to you.”

Rodolfo “He’s practically blond!” “He sings, he cooks, he could make dresses…” “I have no money to get married. I have a nice

face, but no money.” “I want to be an American.” “He dreams, he dreams.” “He’s a nice fella’, hard workin’” “He’s like a weird.” “It is my fault, Eddie… I wish to apologise.” “I see it in his eyes; he’s laughin’ at her and he’s

laughin’ at me.” “hit-and-run guy” “only bowin’ to his passport”

Marco “A square-built peasant of thirty-two, suspicious,

tender, and quiet-voiced.” “If I stay there, they will never grow up. They eat

the sunshine.” “Marco knows what’s right from wrong.” “Marco goes around like a man” “Marco never hurt anybody” “Marco is face to face with Eddie, a strained

tension gripping his eyes and jaw” “My brother is desperate, but not me.” “When you have no wife you have dreams.” “That older one, boy, he’s a regular bull.” “…a certain formal stiffness” “Marco don’t say much.” “He killed my children!” “Marco spits into Eddie’s face” “Animal! You go on your knees to me!”

Alfieri “an intelligent man” “I was so powerless to stop it” “I am inclined to notice the ruins in things” “A lawyer in his fifties turning gray; he is portly,

good-humoured, and thoughtful.” “Sometimes…there’s too much love for the

niece.” “What other way can it end?” “The law is only a word for what has a right to

happen.” “To promise not to kill is not dishonourable.” “Most of the time now we settle for half and I

like it better.” “The truth is holy.”