Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Maggie.

After Brick is done in the shower Maggie asks if Brick enjoyed his shower, and offers him an alcohol or cologne rub, but Brick says that he is not in shape, and that’s it is only good after a workout. Maggie begins to talk about how he remains attractive and a drunk. She states that he is the only drunk she knows who hasn’t lost his looks, he might even look better. I found this interesting because I was unsure of if she said this seriously, or sarcastically. If she was serious, then why would she have cheated on him with the skipper, but if she said it sarcastically, it must have been to stop Brick from fighting with her and get on his good side so he wouldn’t leave her, which again makes me think if she didn’t want him to leave her so badly, why did she cheat on him? She later says that he was wonderful at lovemaking, it was his calm and indifference that did this, but if she ever thought they wouldn’t do it ever again, she would kill herself. This idea also sent even more questions of why she cheated on Brick through my head. At this point the only other explainable reason I could think of for why Maggie cheated was that maybe her sex life wasn’t good, but now that she says that it is “wonderful,” and she announces her plot to conceive a child, it must have to do with the idea that Maggie thinks her childlessness calls her status as wife and woman into question.

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