Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man with a strong sense of decency and of honour. For Eddie it's a privilege to take in his wife's cousins straight off the boat from one of them it's clear that it's not just as Eddie claims that he's too strange too sissy too careless for her but that something bigger deeper is wrong and wrong inside Eddie in a way he Can't face. Something which threatens the happiness of their whole family.