In the play ‘A View from the bridge’ by Arthur Miller, Desire is presented using varies techniques in this passage. Firstly Eddie Carbone asks Catherine where she’s going all dressed up reveals that Eddie notices her entirely which shows he’s physical interested into her. Parallel structure is also present when Catherine continuously asks Eddie for his opinion of how good she looks, revealing she desires him. Suggestive stage directions are also used to give connotations of desires.
When Catherine shows off her new skirt, he says it’s beautiful one moment and then he sees her nice sexy thighs and immediately criticizes and says it’s too short. This reveals that he blatantly has incestuous love for his niece as he tries to fight off and reject the thoughts he’s having. This makes it harder for him to deal with the matter that other men will find her unbelievably attractive. Also the impossibly selfless Beatrice is jealous that eddie gives her more attention than she deserves and that she hardy receives any. “Now don’t aggravate me, Katie, you are walkin’ wavy. I don’t like the looks they’re givin’ you in the candy store, and with them new high heels on the sidewalk-clack, clack, clack. The heads are turnin’ like windmills. The Onomatopoeia of clack, clack, clack reinforces and the confirmation his jealously and paranoid. The simile of heads turnin’ like windmills expresses how attractive she is that head would be instantly and automatically turning very fast.
Catherine always wants eddies opinion the most, therefore showing that she desires him as she’s always trying to please him. Parallel structure of “You like it, huh?” is used to highlight how desperate Catherine is for eddies opinion. But when Rodolpho comes into the household, Eddie is reduced in Catherine’s eyes; revealing he becomes jealous and mad that Catherine does not desire him anymore. Eddie becomes the self-interested man meaning he is completely motivated by his own desires at the expense of...