Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Theme Quotes
- Created by: abby.holdsworth
- Created on: 01-12-21 09:07
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- Cat Themes
- Mendacity
- "I hate locked doors in a house" - Big Mama
- "All the goddam lies and liars that I have had to put up with" - Big Daddy
- "Think of all the lies I got to put up with! - Pretences!
- "I've lived with mendacity! - Why can't you live with it?" - Big Daddy
- "this disgust with mendacity is disgust with yourself" - Big Daddy
- "mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an' death's the other" - Brick
- "Lying! Dying! Liars!" - Big Daddy
- "Poisons, poisons! Venomous thoughts and words! In hearts and minds! - That's poisons!" - Maggie
- "Brick and I are going to - have a child!" - Maggie
- Disease
- "carefully not betray his weakness" - Big Daddy
- "Ignorance - of mortality - is a comfort" - Big Daddy
- Sexuality
- "Why would I marry you, Maggie, if I was -" - Brick
- "You started drinking when your friend Skipper died" - Big Daddy
- "You call me your son and a queer... pair of old sisters" - Brick
- "Brick is transformed, as if a quiet mountain blew suddenly up in volcanic flame" - Brick
- Communication / Relationships
- Brick Stage Directions: "wryly", "absently", "dreamily", "coolly", "indifferently"
- "We occupy the same cage" - Maggie
- "You keep forgetting the conditions on which I agreed to stay on living with you... impossible conditions" - Brick/Maggie
- "Take a lover!" - Brick
- "Some single men stop drinking when they git married and other start" - Big Mama
- "Are you LISTENING TO ME!" - Maggie "Yes. I hear you, Maggie" - Brick
- "how in hell on earth... going to have a child by a man that can't stand you?" - Brick
- "Big Mama is notorious ... elegant horseplay"
- "You're tool old an' too fat" - Big Daddy
- "I'll smother her... ***** her... choke her... hump her" - Big Daddy
- "went to bed with Maggie to prove it wasn't true" - Brick
- Wealth/Greed
- "Her family was maybe a little superior to Big Daddy's"
- "You can be young without money but you can't be old without it" - Maggie
- "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... hope that one of his purchases will be everlasting"
- "It's avarice, avarice, greed, greed!" - Maggie
- Mendacity
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