Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Summary (Part 3)

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  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Part Three)
    • Setting
      • "there is no lapse of time"
        • Brick and Big Daddy's fight still fresh - modern writers like to keep the pace up to maintain emotion
      • Brick and Maggie's Bedroom
    • Key Quotes
      • "I sure will, Big Mama" - Reverend Tooker ( represents T.W thought of religion, represents mendacity)
      • "Mae sits beside Big Mama, while Gooper moves in front and sits on the end of the couch" - stage direction, predatory, corner her so she has to turn to them
      • "her great almost embarrassingly true-hearted and simple-minded devotion to Big Daddy" - stage direction (B.M)
      • "Big Mama has a dignity at this moment: she almost stops being fat" - stage direction, women expected to be slim to be respected
      • "Mae kisses her quickly. She thrusts Mae fiercely away from her" - stage direction, doesn't accept her as family - façade
      • "I want Brick! Where's Brick? Where is Brick? Where is my only son?" - Big Mama, favouritism, façade, don't consider Gooper family
      • "(with jocularity) she's gonna keep both chins up, aren't you, Big Mama?" - Gooper, respect is not associated with being overweight
      • "It's avarice, avarice, greed, greed!" - Maggie
      • "Gooper has stalked up to Margaret with clenched fists at his sides as if he would strike her" - stage direction, Big Daddy's influence, capacity to abuse women, disliked by B.D because he reminds him of himself
      • "Poisons, poisons! Venemous thoughts and words! In hearts and minds! - That's poisons" - Maggie, cancer killing B.D, mendacity killing family
      • "we hear you!" - Mae, no privacy, idiom: fly on the wall, build a case against them, desperate for evidence
      • "Wouldn't it be funny if that was true?" - Brick
    • Gooper and Mae want to tell Big Mama about Big Daddy's cancer so that they can gain his inheritance
    • Gooper and Mae constantly finish each other's sentences, pre-rehearsed argument
      • Gooper and Mae always subtly fighting with each other "fierce poke" "grimace of fury" "savage poke" "quick violent look"
    • Maggie becomes ironic and hypocritical as she constantly outlines the harm of mendacity and then announces she is "going to - have a child!" with Brick
    • At the end, Maggie takes away Brick's support system in order to manipulate him into making her pregnant "gathers all the bottles in her arms" and "hurls the crutch over the rail"
      • taking advantage of Brick and making him increasingly vulnerable who is physically weak from not having his crutch and is heavily intoxicated too

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