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.”