In this essay I will describe the way Miller hints at tragedy at the beginning of the play "A View from the Bridge". Miller gives us many clues in opening section to try to make the audience think. He wants us to think about how the main character dies and not what happened at the end because everyone knows that in a tragedy the main character dies Miller uses a number of devices, for example the 'use of plot devices, the structure that foreshadows or impacts the audience's understanding of the work One of the reasons we know this story will lead to a tragic ending is because of a character Alfieri, who is a lawyer and a choir. At the beginning he gave a speech as a choir and in this speech he tells us a lot about the show. We can say that he is a choir figure because he spoke directly to the audience. So, if Alfieri is a choir then we know that the. work belongs to a Greek tragedy. We know that in a tragedy the main hero or heroine dies, they die because of their own actions and deeds, and their death is unstoppable, so we therefore know that in this play the character will die. Alfieri also talks to us about the two justice systems, the American one and the Sicilian one. From this I sensed that these two very opposing justice systems will clash. Anyone going to America from Sicily will have difficulty because we know that the two laws are totally different. I see it when Alfieri states, “I no longer keep a gun in my filing cabinet.” This means that people are following and getting used to American law rather than Sicilian law where you have to commit crimes like killing people, trading illegal things like drugs, alcohol etc. Alfieri had to use his gun to protect himself and others from ...... middle of paper ...... and foreshadowing. For example when Eddie told the story of 'Vinnie Bolzano' who mistreated his own family and then was humiliated because he had broken the Sicilian law of not reporting his family and was never seen again. This also tells us that Sicilian law was very harsh and violent; if you break the law you could die. This story foreshadows what might happen to Eddie and this story makes us sure because the audience would think why else mention it in the show unless it is something related to Eddie. We actually see this happen to Eddie at the end. Furthermore, there is dramatic irony in that Eddie told Catherine not to tell anyone that immigrants were living in her house, but later told the immigration officer himself. For Eddie, his feelings for Catherine were stronger than his belief in Sicilian justice.