What can I do? I'm a patsy, what can a p...

A View from the Bridge

Eddie Carbone

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What can I do? I'm a patsy, what can a patsy do? I worked like a dog twenty years so a punk could have her, so that's what I done. I mean, in the worst times, in the worst, when there wasn't a ship comin' in the harbor, I didn't stand around lookin' for relief—I hustled.
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I give him my house to sleep! I take the blankets off my bed for him, and he takes and puts his dirty filthy hands on her like a goddam thief!

Miller, Arthur. A View from the Bridge, Bloomsbury, 2010, pp 42-43.

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