Brick And Maggie Quotes And Analysis
Brick and Maggie had been married since college, so you would think that what they shared was special, unbreakable, true love. Everything that they built became deferred when Maggie slept with Skipper, Brick’s best friend. We can’t really give a solid explanation as to why she did this because we don’t know her motivations, but she may have committed this act for various reasons, one being to shift any displacement in Brick’s mind from her to skipper. Perhaps she was trying to prove a point because she thinks that Skipper loves her husband. Perhaps she was trying to save her relationship because if she would prove that skipper was homosexual by trying to sleep with him, she could tell Brick then he would see the truth. Perhaps Maggie just wanted
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Sometimes people have to bring others down to bring themselves up and make them feel like they’re worth something. Maggie grew up poor and did not want to ever return to that lifestyle. She knew that big daddy was going to die and wasn’t sure if she was going to reap any of the benefits so this brought about self-conflict and how she was going to avoid her old poverty background. She also knew that that Gooper and Mae, Brick’s brother and sister-in-law, had children which was something that she longed for. She was finding all these issues within herself and it made her self-esteem drop. She wanted to feel loved, she wanted attention, and she wanted a wealthy, prosperous life of her own with her husband. Because she felt like these needs weren’t being met she had to find comfort from somewhere, so this is where she turns to skipper. Skipper was always around and was the closest thing to Brick so she took it upon herself to sleep with him. She says in act I “…you got a spinal injury–couldn’t play the Thanksgiving game in Chicago, watched it on TV from a traction bed in Toledo. I joined Skipper. The Dixie Stars lost because poor skipper was drunk. We drank together that night all night in the bar…” (43). She had no regards of anyone’s feelings but her own and she just wanted to make sure that her needs and wants were satisfied. Sleeping with Skipper brought comfort and security to her and this is what she felt she
Sometimes people have to bring others down to bring themselves up and make them feel like they’re worth something. Maggie grew up poor and did not want to ever return to that lifestyle. She knew that big daddy was going to die and wasn’t sure if she was going to reap any of the benefits so this brought about self-conflict and how she was going to avoid her old poverty background. She also knew that that Gooper and Mae, Brick’s brother and sister-in-law, had children which was something that she longed for. She was finding all these issues within herself and it made her self-esteem drop. She wanted to feel loved, she wanted attention, and she wanted a wealthy, prosperous life of her own with her husband. Because she felt like these needs weren’t being met she had to find comfort from somewhere, so this is where she turns to skipper. Skipper was always around and was the closest thing to Brick so she took it upon herself to sleep with him. She says in act I “…you got a spinal injury–couldn’t play the Thanksgiving game in Chicago, watched it on TV from a traction bed in Toledo. I joined Skipper. The Dixie Stars lost because poor skipper was drunk. We drank together that night all night in the bar…” (43). She had no regards of anyone’s feelings but her own and she just wanted to make sure that her needs and wants were satisfied. Sleeping with Skipper brought comfort and security to her and this is what she felt she