Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Theme Quotes

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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

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams that explores themes of family, sexuality, and mendacity. The play's title refers to the image of a cat that is stranded on a slate roofing during a hot summer day, struggling to find a place to rest. This metaphorical image of a cat on a hot tin roof is used throughout the play to highlight the tension and conflict between the characters.

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