Brick and Maggie Character Analysis
- Created by: abby.holdsworth
- Created on: 15-06-21 10:54
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- Brick
- unstable
- "at some deeper level he is far from peaceful" - stage direction A1
- "Brick remains unengaged" - stage direction A2
- "I have to hear that little click in my head that makes me peaceful" - Brick A2
- "That's the truth, Big Daddy. I'm alcoholic." - Brick A2
- "you started drinkin' when your friend Skipper died" - Big Daddy A2
- "Brick's detachment is at last broken through" - stage direction A2
- "the 'mendacity; that Brick drinks to kill his disgust with" - stage direction A2
- "you call me your son and a queer" - Brick A2
- "Brick is transformed as if a quiet mountain blew suddenly up in volcanic flame" - stage direction A2
- "You think that Skipper and me were a pair of dirty old men?" - Brick A2
- "he made a drunken confession to me and on which I hung up! - last time we spoke to each other in our lives" - Brick A2
- "this disgust with mendacity is disgust with yourself" - Big Daddy
- "a crack in the wall? - of composure?" - Maggie A1
- "One great good thing which is true! - I had friendship with Skipper. - You are naming it dirty!" - Brick A1
- "Fresh'nin' up my drink" - Brick A2 |(protective mechanism)
- unhealthy relationhsip
- Maggie
- Attention Seeking
- "she giggles with a hand fluttering at her throat and her breast and her long throat arched" - stage direction A1
- "Look, Brick! How high my body stays on me!" - Maggie A1
- "Big Daddy harbours a little unconscious 'lech' fo' me" - Maggie A1
- "Margaret is alone, completely alone, and she feels it" - stage direction A1
- "It works both ways!"- Maggie A1
- "You can be young without money but you can't be old without it" - Maggie A1
- Catty
- "five little no-neck monsters" - Maggie A1
- "'Cause I'm a cat! But why can't you take a joke, Sister Woman?" - Maggie A1
- "Sounds like four dogs and a parrot... animal act in a circus" - Maggie about Mae's children's names A1
- "they look like a couple of cats on a hot tin roof" - Big Daddy A2
- "it's avarice, avarice, greed, greed!" - Maggie A3
- "tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back" - Maggie A3
- "locking up his liquor and making him satisfy my desire" - Maggie A3
- "Poisons, poisons! Venomous thoughts and words! In hearts and minds! - That's poisons!" - Maggie A3
- "Brick and I are going to - have a child!" - Maggie A3
- Attention Seeking
- "we occupy the same cage" - Maggie A1
- "you keep forgetting the conditions on which I agreed to stay on living with you" - Brick A1
- "Take a lover!" - Brick A1
- "Count five" - stage direction (M) A1
- "Skipper is dead! I'm alive! Maggie the car is - alive!" Maggie A1
- "Brick strikes at her with crutch" - stage direction A1
- "how in the hell on earth do you imagine - that you're going to have a child by a man hat can't stand you" - Brick A1
- "she kisses Brick on the mouth which he immediately wipes with the back of his hand" - stage direction A2
- "both of us married into society, Big Daddy" - Brick A2
- "Skipper went to bed with Maggie to prove it wasn't true" - Brick A2
- "it takes money to take care of a drinker and that's the office that I've been elected to lately" - Maggie A1
- "Skipper and I made love... because it made both of us feel a bit closer to you" - Maggie A1
- Maggie
- "Why can't exceptional friendship, real, real, deep, deep friendship! between two men be respected as something clean and decent without being though of as ... fairies" - Brick A2
- "for the first time a realisation of Big Daddy's doom seems to penetrate Brick's consciousness, visibly" - stage direction A1
- "how are you going to conceive a child by a man in love with his liquor?" - Brick A3
- unstable
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