Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Summary (Part 2)

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  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Part 2)
    • Setting
      • "there is no lapse of time"
      • Big Daddy's birthday party held in Brick and Maggie's rooms
    • Big Daddy enters "carefully not to betray his weakness"
    • The relationship between Big Mama and Big Daddy is portrayed to be very toxic and verbally abusive, Big Mama will often insult herself so that either Big Daddy doesn't or to soften the blow of his commentary
    • Key Quotes
      • "Big Mama is notorious throughout the delta for this sort of inelegant horseplay" - stage direction
      • "all the goddam lies and liars that I have to put up with, and all the goddam hypocrisy" - Big Daddy
      • "both of us married into society, Big Daddy" - Brick
      • "the human animal is a selfish beast" - Big Daddy
        • "the human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys" - Big Daddy
        • "ignorance - of morality - is a comfort"
      • "smother her... ***** her naked... choke her... choke her with diamonds... smother her with minks... hump her" - Big Daddy
      • " act like I care for Big Mama! - I haven't been able to stand the sight, sound, or smell of that woman for forty years now!" - Big Daddy
      • "pretend to love that son of a ***** of a Gooper and his wife Mae and those screechers" - Big Daddy
      • "why would I turn over twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile to not my kind?" - Big Daddy (Gooper)
      • "you started drinking when your friends Skipper died" - Big Daddy
      • "this disgust with mendacity is disgust with yourself" - Big Daddy
      • "Lying! Dying! Liars!" - Big Daddy
    • theme of mendacity introduced
    • Big Daddy and Brick had a private conversation together consisting of mendacity, Brick's drinking and Skipper
    • Big Daddy is repeatedly disrespectful to women throughout the scene and claims how he doesn't consider Gooper as his own

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