CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

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

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