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One of those no-neck monsters hit me with a hot buttered biscuit so I have to change! Well, I! – just

remarked that! – one of th? no-neck monsters messed up my lovely lace dress so I got to

cha-a-ange! I swear they?ve got no necks. None visible. Their fat little heads are stuck on their

fat little bodies without a bit of connection. An? it?s too bad, ?cause you can?t wring their necks if

they?ve got no necks to wring! Yep, they?re monsters, all right. All no-neck people are monsters.

Hear them? Hear them screaming? I don?t know where their voice boxes are located since they

don?t have necks. I tell you I got so nervous at that table tonight I thought I would throw back my

head and utter a scream you could hear clear across the Arkansas border and parts of Louisiana

and Tennessee. I said to your charming sister-in-law, ?Mae, honey couldn?t you feed those

precious little thing at a separate table? They make such a mess and the lace cloth looks soooo

pretty…? She made enormous eyes at me and said, ? Ohhhhhh, no! On Big Daddy?s birthday?

Why, he would never forgive me!? Well, I want you to know, Big Daddy hadn?t been at that table

two minutes with them no-neck monsters slobbering an? drooling over their food before he threw

down his fork and shouted? ? Fo? God?s sake, Gooper! Why don?t you feed them pigs at a trough in

the kitchen?!? Well, I swear, I simply could have dii-ie-ed! -Big Daddy shares my attitude towards

Brother man and that monster of fertility Mae! As for me, well – I give him a laugh now and then

and he tolerates me. In fact, – I sometimes suspect that Big Daddy harbors a little unconscious

lech for me. Way he always drops his eyes down my body when I?m talking to him, drops his eyes

to my boobs an? licks his old chops! Ha ha! – Why are you looking at me like that? The way you

were lookin? at me just now , befo? I caught you eyein? the mirror? I don?t know how t? describe it,

but it froze my blood! – I?ve caught you looking at me like that so often lately. Don?t you think I

know that-? Don?t you-? – Think I know that-? That I?ve gone through this – hideous! -

transformation, become – hard! Frantic! —–cruel! That?s what you?ve been observing in me lately.

How could y? help but observe it? That?s all right. I?m not – thin-skinned anymore, can?t afford t? be

thin-skinned anymore. – But, Brick? Brick? I was goin? to say something: that I get – lonely. Very!

Living with someone you love can be lonelier – than living entirely alone! – if the one that y? love

doesn?t love you…. You used to be such a wonderful lover… such a wonderful person to go to bed

with, and I think mostly because you were really indifferent to it. Isn?t that right? Never had any

anxiety about it, did it naturally, easily, slowly, with absolute confidence and perfect calm. More

like opening a door for a lady or seating her at a table than giving any expression of longing for

her. Your indifference made you wonderful at lovemaking. Strange? – but true…. You know if I

thought you would never, never, never make love to me again, I would go down to the kitchen and

pick out the longest sharpest knife I could find and stick it straight into my heart, I swear that I

would! But the one thing I don?t have is the charm of the defeated, my hat is still in the ring and I

am determined to win! What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew…. just staying

on it, I guess, as long as she can…

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