A View from the Bridge Contrasting Regions Quotes

Eddie: "suppose my father didn't come to this country and I was starvin' like them over there." (1.75)

The entire Italian community in Red Hook seems to welcome immigrants for this very same reason.

Rodolpho: "This will be the first house I ever walked into in America! Imagine! She said they were poor!" (1.203)

People must be pretty darn poor in Sicily. Red Hook tenements really aren't so nice by American standards.

Catherine: "They got oranges on the trees where he comes from, and lemons. Imagine – on the trees?" (2.419)

Here's Miller highlighting how rural life is in Sicily compared to Brooklyn. Things actually still grow over there. Imagine that.