A View from the Bridge Women and Femininity Quotes

Rodolpho: "You think I would carry on my back the rest of my life a woman I didn't love just to be an American?" (2.45)

What, so all women are burdens?

Catherine: "If I was a wife I would make a man happy instead of goin' at him all the time." (2.57)

Is Catherine seeing being a wife through rose tinted glasses? Is it sometimes a wife's role is to set her husband straight?

Rodolpho, clasping her to him: "Oh, my little girl."
Catherine: Teach me. […] I don't know anything, teach me, Rodolfo, hold me. (2.60-61)

Even in the bedroom with her new man, Catherine still assumes a submissive role.