Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
by Tennesse Williams
Gliederung /Plot Summary
Act I | Act
II | Act III
ACT I
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15 --
M&B -- shower, dressing; discuss no-neck monsters; Big Daddy's cancer
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18 --
Rainbow Hill; jumping hurdles
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19 --
"ass-aching Puritan"
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23--
"living with someone you love can be lonelier…"
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24 --
M says Brick has charm of detached/ defeated
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25 --
cat on a hot tin roof; "laws of silence"
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26 --
crutch; the "click"
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27-8
-- B refuses to sign card; M says "we occupy the same cage"; conditions..
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28-30
talking wi Mae
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31 --M
"How long does it have t' go on? This punishment?"
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31-2
-- Maggie locks the door
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32-36
-- Big Mamma comes in; she says report is good on BigD; phone call; BigM
accuses M of failure of marriage.
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41 --
Maggie's past
42-7s
-- the truth about that thing with Skipper
ACT II
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49 --
Big Daddy enters wi Gooper and Rev. Tooker: Discussing church memorials
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50 --
Big Mama enters; Horsing around
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55 --
Big Daddy talking to Brick about hurdles
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57 --
BD yells at BM for taking over 58 -- disgust with hypocrits
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62 --
BD confronts B over Maggie, quitting job, drinking "life is important"
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64 --
Big Daddy talking about money --" a man can't buy back his life with
it". Corruption in Europe
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69 --
Big D's relief at thinking he doesn't have cancer
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73 --
the click
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74
-- Brick: pain of commuincation
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76 FF
--BD confronting Brick;
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78 -
1st answer: Disgus -- mendacity
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85 --
BD brings up Skipper: Brick's detachmetn broken...
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87 --
B screams at BD for thnking he and SKipper "did dirty things"
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91 --
blames Maggie for putting idea into Skipper's mind
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92 --
what Brick left out of the story; hints at BD's cancer
ACT
III
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96 ff--
Gooper, Rev Tucker break the news to Big Mama
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106 --
BigM calls Brick my only son
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110 ff--
Gooper arguing over control of the place.
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113 --
Gooper loses it and says what he thinks
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116 --
Big Mama takes on Gooper's plan to control estate
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118 --
Maggie announces child
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123 --
going to make the lie true