Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Brick Pollitt
Brick has made a virtue of indifference, first as a football star admired from afar by family and friends, then as a dreamy alcoholic, hiding the truth of his complicity in his best friend's death behind a mask of indifference. Brick punishes himself and his wife, Maggie, whom he would rather have take the blame for Skipper's descent into drugs and alcohol. Brick imposes two punishments on himself and on his wife. One is drinking until he feels the "click'' releasing him into the welcome oblivion of intoxication; he uses alcohol as a means of escape. The other is sexual...
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