1. These two characters represent the whole neighborhood with their actions and emotions
2. Characters
   1. Only 8 main characters in play
      1. 4 support characters
      2. Main characters are
         1. Eddie Carbone
            1. Protagonist of the story
         2. Catherine Carbone
         3. Beatrice Carbone
            1. Wife to Eddie Carbone
            2. Regarded as a side/support character in the beginning of the play
         4. Marco
            1. Antagonist of the story
            2. Rodolfo's Brother
         5. Rodolfo
            1. Antagonist of the story
            2. Catherine's love
         6. Alfieri
            1. The watching narrator and lawyer of the story
         7. Mike
         8. Louis
3. History
   1. Opened on Broadway as one-act play
      1. 29 September 1955
      2. Ran for 149 performances
   2. Play was first performed at the Comedy Theatre
      1. London
      2. 11 October 1956
4. Setting
   1. New York, Red Hook
      1. Neighborhood in borough of Brooklyn
      2. Homogeneous community of Italian and Sicilian immigrants
   2. All characters appreciate benefits of living in U.S., but still strongly hold to Italian traditions
   3. Italy, basis of cultural traditions in Red Hook, serves as touchstone to unite community, with own laws and customs
   4. set of play is simple, merely skeleton of the Carbone's living room in their apartment, also a desk to represent Alfieri's office, and a telephone booth.