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Alfieri
One of Beatrice’s cousins from Italy, who immigrates illegally to the United States and lives in Eddie’s apartment. He is more hard-working and traditionally masculine than Rodolpho and therefore Eddie respects Marco more than Rodolpho. However, when Eddie reports Marco and Rodolpho to the Immigration Bureau, Marco spits in Eddie’s face and publicly accuses him of betrayal. Marco has a strong sense of personal honor and justice, and feels obligated to seek some form of revenge on Eddie. In the physical struggle with Eddie at the end of the play, Marco ends up stabbing Eddie with Eddie's own knife, killing him.
Marco Quotes in A View from the Bridge
The A View from the Bridge quotes below are all either spoken by Marco or refer to Marco. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1
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Listen, they’ll think it’s a millionaire’s house compared to the way they live. Don’t worry about the walls. They’ll be thankful.
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Act 2
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That one! I accuse that one!
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Alfieri:
To promise not to kill is not dishonorable.
Marco:
No?
Alfieri:
No.
Marco:
Then what is done with such a man.
Alfieri:
Nothing. If he obeys the law, he lives. That’s all.
Marco:
The law? All the law is not in a book.
Alfieri:
Yes. In a book. There is no other law.
Marco:
He degraded my brother. My blood. He robbed my children, he mocks my work. I work to come here, mister!
Alfieri:
I know, Marco—
Marco:
There is no law for that? Where is the law for that?
Alfieri:
There is none.
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This is not God, Marco. You hear? Only God makes justice.
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I want my name! He didn’t take my name; he’s a punk. Marco’s got my name—and you can run tell him, kid, that he’s gonna give it back to me in front of this neighborhood, or we have it out.
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Maybe he come to apologize to me. Heh, Marco? For what you said about me in front of the neighborhood? . . . Wipin’ the neighborhood with my name like a dirty rag! I want my name, Marco.
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Marco Quotes in A View from the Bridge
The A View from the Bridge quotes below are all either spoken by Marco or refer to Marco. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1
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Listen, they’ll think it’s a millionaire’s house compared to the way they live. Don’t worry about the walls. They’ll be thankful.
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Act 2
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That one! I accuse that one!
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Alfieri:
To promise not to kill is not dishonorable.
Marco:
No?
Alfieri:
No.
Marco:
Then what is done with such a man.
Alfieri:
Nothing. If he obeys the law, he lives. That’s all.
Marco:
The law? All the law is not in a book.
Alfieri:
Yes. In a book. There is no other law.
Marco:
He degraded my brother. My blood. He robbed my children, he mocks my work. I work to come here, mister!
Alfieri:
I know, Marco—
Marco:
There is no law for that? Where is the law for that?
Alfieri:
There is none.
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This is not God, Marco. You hear? Only God makes justice.
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I want my name! He didn’t take my name; he’s a punk. Marco’s got my name—and you can run tell him, kid, that he’s gonna give it back to me in front of this neighborhood, or we have it out.
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Maybe he come to apologize to me. Heh, Marco? For what you said about me in front of the neighborhood? . . . Wipin’ the neighborhood with my name like a dirty rag! I want my name, Marco.
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