Zusammenfassung der Ressource
CAT ON A HOT
TIN ROOF
- GENDER
- CRUTCH = BRICK'S
EMASCULATION SYMBOL
- "Give me my crutch!" [spoken
like sudden lightning]
- "Don't you know I could kill you..."
- MAGGIE INFERTILITY
- "Monster of fertility"
- "Something's not
right! You're childless
and my son drinks!"
- BD MISOGYNY
- "Choke her
with diamonds"
- [famous for his jokes
at BM's expense]
- BRICK GAY
- "-ducking
sissies? Queers?"
- "Real, real, deep,
deep friendship"
- TRUTH/LIES
- MAGGIE LIES/VIEWS ON LIES
- "I'm honest! Give me credit..."
- "We're going to
make the lie true"
- "grows & festers in silence,
becomes malignant"
- "The walls in this house have ears"
- BD ANGER AT LIES
- "all liars, all liars, all
lying dying liars!"
- BRICK VIEW ON LIES
- "Being almost not alive
makes me sort of
accidentally truthful"
- "Mendacity...liquor
is one way out an'
death's the other"
- RELATIONSHIP
BREAKDOWN
- UNFULFILLED RELATIONSHIP -
NOT PHYSICAL/MENTAL
- BED = SYMBOL "The rocks
are there, right there"
- "not living with you. We occupy
the same cage that's all"
- CAUSE OF PROBLEMS
- "By locking
his liquor up"
- QUESTION OF WHETHER
MARRIAGE WILL WORK
- "I'm a cat on a hot tin roof"
- [the door was
half open]
- "Wouldn't it be funny
if that were true" REP
- GREED
- NEED FOR MONEY
TO SURVIVE
- "Can be young without money,
but you can't be old without it"
- "Born poor, raised poor,
expect to die poor"
- "All my family ever had was family"
- GOOPER/MAE GREED
- "I know how to
protect my
own interests"
- Brick doesn't
deserve inherit
- "A football or
a highball"
- BD GREED VIEW
- "human animal is a
beast that dies and
if he's got money he
buys & buys & buys"
- LONELINESS
- MAGGIE LONELINESS
- "Living with somebody
you love...lonelier than
living entirely alone"
- "Haven't I done time enough?
Haven't I served my term?"
- BRICK LONELINESS
- "Click in my head that
makes me peaceful"
- "A man in love
with his liquor"
- DEATH
- MAGGIE HONESTY
- "It's malignant
and it's terminal"
- "Skipper is dead! I'm alive!"
- "Cancer" stated explicitly & rep
- BM CAN'T FACE IT
- "What he thought
he was doomed to"
- "A black thing"
- BD VIEW
- "Nothin can outrun it. Death
commences too early"
- "Ignorance - of
mortality - is a comfort"