Both Maggie and Skipper, however, were making love to one another in lieu of Brick. Shortly thereafter, Skipper began to self-destruct, and soon died. This is the point at which Brick turned to liquor as well. They are interrupted by the arrival of more family members. Everyone but Big Daddy and Big Mama knows that Big Daddy is dying, but he and his wife were told by the doctor that he just had a spastic colon.
Tonight, the sons will tell their mother the truth. After a round of happy birthday, the older couple is left alone. Big Daddy is cruel to Big Mama, who insists that she loves him even though he doesn't believe her. He is frustrated that she has taken charge of the estate since he became sick, but now that he knows that his days are no longer numbered he thinks he is going to take it all back and return Big Mama to her place.
Big Mama leaves and Big Daddy summons Brick. Big Daddy tries to open up to Brick, but his son isn't interested in talking. The older man persists in making an effort at communication, telling stories about his travels in Europe and how horrible poverty is.
He worked hard to get where he is now, financially, and now that he is free of cancer, he is going to enjoy his wealth properly. Big Daddy speaks of taking on a mistress — Big Mama never interested him. Brick, however, does interest him. Big Daddy is devastated by the news that he's dying and leaves the room. Again, no time has lapsed as we move into Act III.
Everyone comes back into the bedroom and wonders where Big Daddy has gone. The tone of the party sobers but Brick doesn't as Gooper and Mae gather everyone for a family conference.
Brick leaves to drink outside and to sing to the moon. Big Mama is distraught and is in denial at first. She wants Brick to tell her the truth. Gooper and Mae not-so-subtly discuss the inheritance and who will take over the plantation when Big Daddy leaves. Maggie is disgusted by the greed she sees in Gooper and Mae. A bitter family conflict arises, quelled only by Big Mama taking charge, using language we might expect from Big Daddy, and telling everyone to cool it.
At the height of all of this, Maggie announces she is pregnant, news that lifts Big Mama's spirits. Big Mama runs to tell Big Daddy. Gooper and Mae leave the bedroom hissing like, well, cats. We hear occasional moans of anguish coming from Big Daddy, emanating from another room in the house. Maggie turns out the lights and disposes of all of the alcohol in the room while Brick drinks on the gallery.
When he returns, Maggie tells him that she has gotten rid of the alcohol and that she will give him a drink only after he agrees to sleep with her. The curtain falls as Maggie tells Brick she loves him, and Brick simply says, "Wouldn't it be funny if that were true? The End. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. First, however, Brick attempts another dodge, a feint that Daddy must elucidate.
He attributes his drinking to his disgust for the mendacity. Daddy has every reason to suspect his son of passing the buck as he uttered the same lines a few moments earlier in his lecture to Big Mama. Brick's declaration is an example of empty speech, speech that would put its listener off the track of his desire. As we will see, Daddy will appear to make sense of Brick's proclamation of disgust at the end of his tale but in a way that strangely seems to refer to his own state of affairs.
Brick crumbles once again upon the second revelation of homosexual desire in his friendship with Skipper. In erupting violently at Daddy, Brick "doth protest too much. Brick's desire is either utterly unspeakable or only in epithets " Fairies " that would ward off, but nevertheless reveal his guilt. The incongruous but perfectly timed interruption of Reverend Tooker marks the presence of a lie of conventional morality, a lie that Brick, the darling child of this conventional world, has repeated to lethal consequences.
He neglects his dying father as much he neglects the demand of his wife: He ignores the need of dignity before his greedy elder brother, as much as he hates the idea of having a child with his wife.
His responses are few, but almost always void of feelings: "how in hell on earth do you imagine that you are going to have a child by a man that can't stand you". And, he can't stand her. Brick and Maggie's relationship is like a piece of broken mirror which a lady tries to put together and see her image properly as long as she carefully holds the pieces together. Toggle navigation.
The Maggie-Brick Relationship in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Maggie's married life is compared to a cat's life on a hot tin roof, which is the meaning of the title of the drama. Thus, from the very title, we understand that the relationship between Maggie and Brick is essentially a problematic one.
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