Mendacity vs Truth in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams nurse Cat on a Hot Tin Roof takes blot entirely in the grove home of the Pollitt family in the Mississippi Delta. The plantation once belonged to a pair of bachelors, and larger soda pop Pollitt had worked for them as an overseer, scarce he is like a shot the sustainer of the plantation, which he has built into a dynastic empire. stupendous pas family has met at the house to celebrate his birthday. Maggie, a beautiful and witty girl, has escaped a childhood of poverty to draw into the wealthy Pollitt family, but finds herself in an unfulfilling marriage.She is married to Big Daddys son, Brick. He is an aging footb severally(prenominal) hero, and constantly neglects his wife. Brick further infuriates her by ignoring his brothers attacks to assemble control of the family fortune once Big Daddy passes away. Bricks coldness towards Maggie and his drunkenness lot be attributed to the death of his best fri determination, Skipper. Big Daddy has been aspec t a bit under the weather, and what he be reposeves is a spastic colon ends up cosmos a form of cancer.Big Daddy is unconscious mind(predicate) that of his illness and that he doesnt have much succession odd to live, so his doctors and his family have conspired to keep this information from him. The web of lies that is spun throughout this platter is huge, spanning nearly e real member of the family. Big Daddy comments on it towards the end of the book after he is told the truth by Brick, as he questions Whats that smell in the room? Didnt you nonice the tendinous and obnoxious odor of mendacity? According to Big Daddy, Mendacity is whizz of them five-dollar words that punk politicians throw back and forth at distributively other. The dictionary rendering tells us that mendacity is a falsehood, a lie, or a tendency to be untruthful. Mendacity is seen throughout the play and is a negative effect on the characters. altogether the characters are affected, but some are impa cted more than others. Those greatly affected are Brick, Maggie, Big Daddy, and Gooper. The whole lie vs. truths plays a critical role in developing the storyline and plot structure of the novel. As I previously mentioned, Brick was always very cold towards Maggie, elling at her and charge attempting to hit her with his crutch.The very fact that Brick uses a crutch to walk is symbolic, in that the alcohol was his crutch to deal with Skippers death. Skipper and Brick have a great friendship, and it can intimately be viewed as homosexual. The fact that Skipper killed himself the night after he vie in a football game without Brick and had many fumbles and played very poorly overall. Maggie states that it was exclusively Skipper that harbored even so any unconscious desire for any intimacy not perfectly pure between you too (Williams, 833)Brick believes Maggie is the cogitate that Skipper killed himself, because she was ruining their friendship. Brick mourns his love for Skipper , which was the only true and good enough thing in his life. Maggie never dares speak of the forbidden love, and therefore Big Daddy is forced to step in as the judge. When Big Daddy confronts Brick some the homosexual attraction between himself and Skipper, Brick be fill outs extremely defensive and explains how their friendship was vigor more than a pure and true friendship.Big Daddy presses the issue, and Brick can no longer lie alone about the cause of Skippers death. It is then revealed at the climax of the book that before Skipper took his own life, he called Brick long distance and drunkenly confessed his love to him, finally removing the lading of the lie that was Skippers life, pretending that him and Brick were heterosexual friends. Brick however, didnt give tongue to a word, and just hung up. This ended up being the last time Brick ever heard Skippers voice, and because of this, Brick drinks heavily to deal with the upset of taking his best friends life.This mom ent in the book is very impactful for it is one of the only times that mendacity isnt in the air, as Brick and Big Daddy are being real with separately other, with no veil of lies to underwrite behind, perfectly shed as Big Daddy says, then there is at least 2 people that never lied to each other. The big deception throughout the play is that of Big Daddys health. The entire family and the Doctor are all in on this, and each person becomes split into 2 or 3 individuals because of all the deceit. Big Daddys other son Gooper and his wife Mae are some(prenominal) guilty of mendacity.To Big Daddy and Big Mommas faces, they put on the guise as loving people, when in fact it is all an attempt to get Big Daddy to sign over the ground and money to them in his leave behind. They constantly bring up that they have children sequence Maggie and Brick dont, and that Brick is an alcoholic. Basically pointing out all the flaws of their competition to try and conk out themselves in Big Da ddys eyes. Big Mama lies to herself by thinking that a child from Maggie and Brick would turn Brick into a non-drinking, family man drug-addicted to take over the family place.Big Mama had to have been distraught by the fact that her husband has less than a year left to live, and is being lied to by his entire family, talking on how he go out live forever and people toasting to his health. Big Daddy is even wrapped up in the mendacity, as he admits to Brick during their heart-to-heart that unremarkable of his life is consumed with lies, as he pretends to like Gooper and Mae, but when in reality, he cannot stand them. Big Daddy never loved Gooper, but only desired for him to be successful and have a family.Gooper, in attempt to gain Big Daddys love, he always did what he thought Big Daddy would have wanted for him, like having children and becoming a lawyer. The two never talk about their lack of blood, as Gooper only tries to gather Big Daddys love, but Big Daddy never listens to him. Therefore because of this mendacity Gooper does not care about Big Daddys affection, as I previously mentioned, his main intention is to inherit his land. Their relationship is filled with lies because they never talk about their lack of a relationship, which makes the relationship worse.One of the most important relationships in the book is that of Brick and Maggie. Throughout the entire novel, their conversations are mostly them fighting with each other, and it seems they are a married couple, in name only. Their relationship is ground on lies and filled with mendacity, which tears them apart. Maggie lies to Brick and tells him that she and Skipper had an affair, because she was afraid that he was liberation to steal her husband away. The aforementioned homosexual love affair between Brick and Skipper caused a great deal of turmoil throughout the house.The biggest lie in the entire book comes at the very end of the novel, in which Maggie proclaims to Big Daddy that she is pregnant with Bricks child. Big Daddy is joy by this news, and decides to put Brick down as the sole beneficiary to the land. The final scene involves Maggie and Brick in the bedroom, with Maggie locking the door and telling Brick that tonight they were passing to make the lie true. The false reality that Maggie created by lying will soon to come to fruition and all will be good in the Pollitt household.Brick ends the play by responding to Maggies profession of love with Wouldnt it be funny if that were true? Although Brick sounds confused at her words, but he may simply be assuming that because he had been indifferent towards her, she mustiness also be that way towards him. The lies and mendacity of the entire Pollitt family nearly tear the very structure of their being apart, but in the end, the lies end up creating a better reality, one in that Brick and Big Daddy have come to terms with each other, and Maggie the Cat is finally going to be a mother (assuming her and Bric k went through with the sexual conception.Mendacity has caused the Maggie to become much more than just a cat on a hot tin roof, she is now the sole light in Big Daddys life, for hes long awaited for grandchild is finally on the way, and the rekindling of her and Bricks relationship ends the book on a feel good note. Its just about ironic that after all the pain and suffering caused by the lies, that the beaming ending is a product of the biggest lie of them all.