Describe the relationship between Maggie and Brick.

When the play opens, we are introduced to a "pretty young woman" who is "shouting." This woman, goes by the name of Margaret, and lets the audience know right from the beginning that if ever she has a problem, she'll let you know about it.

As we read through the first Act of this three Act play, we learn very quickly that the relationship between Margaret, and her husband Brick is one sided - with all the effort coming from Maggie. It is clear their relationship wouldn't be considered 'normal' because of their attitudes towards each other, or rather, Brick's attitude towards his wife.

The first few pages indicate that Maggie is extremely talkative, with Brick hardly being able to get a sentence in edgeways, however, it later becomes apparent that Brick isn't all too bothered about getting his view across to his loquacious wife. The first conversation we see take place between Brick and Maggie - well, conversation in that Maggie went on and on and Brick would occasionally answer. The conversation concerns Brick's sister's children, or the "no-neck monsters" as Maggie so eloquently calls them. She mo

The turning point of the Act though, comes when Maggie, in her usual mode of talking screams "I feel all the time like a cat on a hot tin roof! " Brick roars back, "Then jump off the roof" and he suggests for her to "Take a lover!". This leaves the audience feeling stunned, however, Maggie just continues, not pausing at what's just been said, but carrying on to say "I can't see a man but you! Even with my eyes closed I just see you!" This gives the audience a clear indication of her devotion to this marriage, about how desperate she is to get it back on track. Nevertheless Brick is none the moved, he says his piece with such dismissal.

As if Maggie hadn't already resorted to desperate methods, she now tried making him jealous, by telling him "Other men still want me." She recalls the story about when she was at a party and the "best lookin' man in the crowd - followed me upstairs and tried to force his way in the powder room with me." Instead of Brick getting angry because some other man was trying to have his way with his wife, Brick asks "why didn't you let him in?"

ans about her nieces and nephews for quite a while with Brick asking 'without interest', "What are they up to, Maggie?" This conversation drags on for a while, with Maggie complaining about the children running around and screaming their heads off. However, what is most interesting about the entire, long-winded conversation is that Brick shows no interest in either Maggie, or what she has to say. He almost seems fed up and indifferent to anything she mentions.

There are even times when Brick will be looking straight through Maggie, a look, she describes that "froze my blood." It is these little things that amount to a lot, as they are so significant in this relationship. Brick himself doesn't even notice that he is looking through her in a way to suggest she wasn't even in the room, as when she questions "Why are you looking at me like that?" he innocently asks "Like what, Maggie?" This one look that has Maggie completely disorientated, has not even passed through Brick's mind - he wasn't even "conscious of looking" at her. This look has really affected Maggie, as she almost breaks down, she admits to Brick "I get - lonely. Very!" Here we get the first admission on Maggie's part that something may even slightly be wrong with their marriage as she desperately tries to explain to her unconcerned husband that "Living with someone you love can be lonelier - that living entirely alone! - if the one you love doesn't love you..." Brick, to both Maggie's surpris

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Approximate Word count = 1715
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)