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Start: Brick,y’know I’ve been so God d...

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
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Start:

Brick,y’know I’ve been so God damn disgustingly poor all my life!- That’s the truth, Brick!

Always had to suck up to people I couldn’t stand because they had money and I was poor as Job’s turkey.

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End:

You’ve got to be old with money because to be old without it is just too awful, you’ve got to be one or the other, either young or with money, you can’t be old and without it.- That’s the truth, Brick…

For full monologue, refer to the script edition cited here: Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Signet Books, 1983, pp. 38-39.

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