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Cat on A Hot Tin Roof by Tennesse Williams
Gliederung /Plot Summary

Act I | Act II | Act III

ACT I

15 -- M&B -- shower, dressing; discuss no-neck monsters; Big Daddy's cancer
18 -- Rainbow Hill; jumping hurdles
19 -- "ass-aching Puritan"
23-- "living with someone you love can be lonelier…"
24 -- M says Brick has charm of detached/ defeated
25 -- cat on a hot tin roof; "laws of silence"
26 -- crutch; the "click"
27-8 -- B refuses to sign card; M says "we occupy the same cage"; conditions..
28-30 talking wi Mae
31 --M "How long does it have t' go on? This punishment?"
31-2 -- Maggie locks the door
32-36 -- Big Mamma comes in; she says report is good on BigD; phone call; BigM accuses M of failure of marriage.
41 -- Maggie's past

42-7s -- the truth about that thing with Skipper

ACT II

49 -- Big Daddy enters wi Gooper and Rev. Tooker: Discussing church memorials
50 -- Big Mama enters; Horsing around
55 -- Big Daddy talking to Brick about hurdles
57 -- BD yells at BM for taking over 58 -- disgust with hypocrits
62 -- BD confronts B over Maggie, quitting job, drinking "life is important"
64 -- Big Daddy talking about money --" a man can't buy back his life with it". Corruption in Europe
69 -- Big D's relief at thinking he doesn't have cancer
73 -- the click
74 -- Brick: pain of commuincation
76 FF --BD confronting Brick;
78 - 1st answer: Disgus -- mendacity
85 -- BD brings up Skipper: Brick's detachmetn broken...
87 -- B screams at BD for thnking he and SKipper "did dirty things"
91 -- blames Maggie for putting idea into Skipper's mind
92 -- what Brick left out of the story; hints at BD's cancer

ACT III