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.”