Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Act 3

Those kiddies are so full of vitality.

Did you all know that Halsey Banks’s widow put air-conditioning units in the church and rectory at Friar’s Point in memory of Halsey?

Yes, my vestments are drenched.

Brick smiles and bows slightly, making a burlesque gesture of gallantry for Margaret to pass before him into the room.

[In these few words, this startled, very soft, question, Big Mama reviews the history of her forty-five years with Big Daddy, her great, almost embarrassingly true-hearted and simple-minded devotion to Big Daddy, who must have had something Brick has, who made himself loved so much by the "simple expedient” of not loving enough to disturb his charming detachment, also once coupled, like Brick, with virile beauty.]

[In these few words, this startled, very soft, question, Big Mama reviews the history of her forty-five years with Big Daddy, her great, almost embarrassingly true-hearted and simple-minded devotion to Big Daddy, who must have had something Brick has, who made himself loved so much by the "simple expedient” of not loving enough to disturb his charming detachment, also once coupled, like Brick, with virile beauty.]

[In these few words, this startled, very soft, question, Big Mama reviews the history of her forty-five years with Big Daddy, her great, almost embarrassingly true-hearted and simple-minded devotion to Big Daddy, who must have had something Brick has, who made himself loved so much by the "simple expedient” of not loving enough to disturb his charming detachment, also once coupled, like Brick, with virile beauty.]

GOOPER [with jocularity]:
She’s gonna keep both chins up, aren’t you, Big Mama?

Mama, those tests are infallible!

This is a deliberate campaign of vilification for the most disgusting and sordid reason on earth, and I know what it is!

This is a deliberate campaign of vilification for the most disgusting and sordid reason on earth, and I know what it is!

It’s avarice, avarice, greed, greed!

I’ve resented Big Daddy’s partiality to Brick ever since Brick was born, and the way I’ve been treated like I was just barely good enough to spit on and sometimes not even good enough for that.

But if I don’t get one, if there’s any peculiar shenanigans going on around here behind my back, well, I’m not a corporation lawyer for nothing, I know how to protect my own interests.

Mae follows but turns at the door, contorting her face and hissing at Margaret.