A View from the Bridge Men and Masculinity Quotes

Eddie: "Come on show me! What're you gonna be? Show me!" (2.80)

Now we see Eddie trying to prove he's a better man the old fashioned way. It's like Animal Planet up in here.

[Stage Direction:] Eddie pins [Rodolpho's] arms, laughing, and suddenly kisses him.

It seems strange after all this criticism of girly men, that Eddie would go and kiss one of them.

Eddie: "I mean I got a couple rights here.[…] This is my house here not their house." (2.120)

Eddie is using the old king of the castle line that has given so many males power over the years.