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cat on a hot tin roof - Coggle Diagram

- - - - she has the courage to fire a weapon
        
        Diana - goddess of hunt, moon and childbirth, virgin goddess - unattainable
        
        tables have turned - maggie is pursuing that - she is looking for that kind of love, and no one is giving it to her
  - - - but also seduction
        
        its also an act
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  - - - but never properly spoken about
    - - his marriage
      - his health - he's now an alcoholic
    - - he hung up on Skipper
      - and now blames his death on Maggie coz he can't deal with it himself
    - - these societal pressures are what Brick is fed up of -
        
        mendacity
  - - - but on the inside, he's crumbling
    - - deviant sexuality
        
        not "normal"
        
        was considered deviance in those times before
        
        "sexual deviant"
- - - - to be eligible to inherit the vast amount
    - - willing to pay this price since they have achieved the American dream
  - - - was it worth it? - he's pointing out that it doesn't seem like this was worth it
- - - - similarities
        
        the lies/mistakes older generation have experienced have repeated
        
        the new generation can't escape it
        
        both wives are desperate for their attention
        
        both think its something to do with them that he won't speak to her
        
        but the men don't believe her love AT ALL
        
        thinks she's just out to get them and kick them out
        
        both say - after 'I love you' - 'wouldn't it be funny if that were true...'
  - - - the only sort of truthfulness in the play
        
        have the most genuine and truthful exchange in the play
        
        but still nothing is really said
        
        since Brick lies about Skipper and Big Daddy's illness
    - - rivals
- - - - but illness, mortality can't be bought by money
    - - but what's the point if he's going to give it all up and die
  - - - older - more susceptible to death
        
        big daddy cancer - symbol of this way of life - american dream
        
        is slowly dying out - becoming obsolete
        
        as america plunges post-war and into the future
        
        now the younger generation is in more control
  - - - idea that church itself is a flawed, disease space
        
        tooker is a representation of that disease
        
        that has corrupted religion
        
        become an opportunistic space for money and corruption
        
        connect to an idea of disease
- - - - there are no character arcs
        
        there's no resolution
    - - they're stuck in this
    - - its more relatable
        
        there are no jumps in time, so everything happens continuously
        
        its a realist play
        
        can't expect whole character arcs - they're comfortable in the status quo
        
        the whole point is how inescapable the culture is
    - - unity of time, place and action
        
        aristotalean ideas
        
        its believable
    - - he expects us to come up with the answers ourselves
        
        audience almost becomes part of the play
  - - - it's inescapable
      - debilitating
        
        becomes part of brick's identity
        
        has ramifications into others identity
- - - - dulls his senses so he can't feel anything
  - - - though she's really hurt by Big Daddy and she genuinely loves him
- - - - how she's presented in the beginning
        
        the shifts
        
        how it is in the end
      - not too much character growth since this happens in an evening
      - how they respond differently towards the end of the play
    - - in contrast to maggie
    - - contrast him to brick
        
        how big daddy treats them both
    - - rev tooker
      - doc baugh
      - children
      - skipper
      - come in discussion of some themes
- - - - desire to hide it by the other family members
        
        to "prepare" him, but they're actually making their own plans for after
      - maggie's views on Big Daddy's death
        
        doesn't want to lie in her own marriage
        
        but she justifies them lying to Big Daddy here
    - - isn't spoken about
        
        every time Brick and Maggie start to talk about it, Brick gets violent and quickly changes the topic
        
        or they're interrupted by a family member -
        
        inability to communicate
      - Brick's alcoholism as a way to escape
        
        big daddy on mendacity - just suck it up and live with it
    - - mendacity isn't resolved
        
        it also ends on a note of deceit
        
        to secure her and Brick's inheritance
        
        and secure her marriage
        
        but this is the 'truest' lie, since she tries to make it true at the end of the play
    - - why people tell these lies
      - why do they maintain such exhausting facades
      - what is the reward
    - - silence - Brick - breakdown in communication
        
        inability to communicate
      - bed - unused