A character in this play declares that he hasn't "been able to stand the sight, smell, or sound of that woman for (*) forty years now," in a monologue that begins with him snatching his son's liquor glass and sardonically asking him: "What do you know about this mendacity thing?"
A character in this play posits that "the human animal is a beast" that buys and buys in the "crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!" A woman this play affirms that "life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is--all--over" and soon afterward exclaims "I am alive! I am alive!" while her husband wildly swipes at her. A character in this play declares that he hasn't "been able to stand the sight, smell, or sound of that woman for (*) forty years now," in a monologue that begins with him snatching his son's liquor glass and sardonically asking him: "What do you know about this mendacity thing?" A plantation owner in this play is told he has a spastic colon to disguise his true diagnosis with terminal cancer, allowing Mae and Gooper to scheme for his estate. For 10 points, name this Tennessee Williams play set at the birthday party of Big Daddy Pollitt.
A character in this play posits that "the human animal is a beast" that buys and buys in the "crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!"
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof