analysis of eddie character

Eddie Carbone is a middle-aged working-class longshoreman living in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with his wife Beatrice and her niece Catherine. Eddie has romantic feelings for Catherine, though he cannot admit them to himself or anyone else, and does not want her to get involved with Rodolpho, one of Beatrice's newly-arrived immigrant cousins. He is unable to control his rage and jealousy and turns in the illegal immigrants. When Marco, Rodolpho's brother, insults his name, he provokes a fight and is stabbed by Marco with his own knife.