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Start: Brick, let me finish! – I know,...

Maggie

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams

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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One
Time & Place
A bedroom on the Pollitt plantation, Mississippi
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Brick, let me finish! – I know, believe me I know, that it was only Skipper that harboured even an unconscious desire for anything not perfectly pure between you two! – Now let me skip a little.

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Born poor, raised poor, expect to die poor unless I manage to get us something out of what Big Daddy leaves when he dies of cancer! But Brick?! – Skipper is dead! I’m alive! Maggie the cat is alive! I am alive, alive! I am alive!

For full monologue, refer to the script edition cited here: Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Signet Books, 1983, pp. 42-43.

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