The following line is taken from Alfieri's first speech:.

             "I am a lawyer. In this neighbourhood to meet a lawyer or a priest on the street is unlucky. We're only connected with disasters and they'd rather not get too close.".

             Alfieri, by saying he is connected with disasters, creates the scene for the play being a tragedy on only the 6th line. He mentions that to meet him on the street is unlucky, which is where he is standing. Later on he says that he is inclined to notice the ruins in things suggesting that the reason for the play ending the way it does is because there is something more deeply underlying wrong that only he notices - another clue to the characters' fate.

             Perhaps the most significant line, though, in his speech is:.

             ".Powerless as I, and watched it run it's bloody course.".

             Until now, we have not known what kind of tragedy the play will be but this line gives us only one answer. Although it still isn't said, Alfieri's words so show us that justice is something very important to the Sicilians and when somebody, especially family, goes against this justice, Death is probably the result. Several lines at the beginning show the Sicilian 'rules" and way of life:.

             "The less you trust, the less you be sorry".

             "I don"t care what the question is. You - don"t – know – nothin"."".

             He also says he is powerless as if the character's destiny is already mapped out and is a path they must inevitably take. This idea continues throughout his other lines during the play. An example of where Eddie Carbone's destiny seems inevitable could be:.

             "I remember him now as he walked through my doorway - His eyes were like tunnels".

             After Alfieri's introduction to the play the first person we see is Eddie. The reader may also associate him with Alfieri's previous description of the "bloody course" which is to follow and connect him with the tragedy. Throughout his lines, Alfieri fixates only on Eddie.