FREE ESSAY ON CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF CUTTING FOR MAGGIE MONOLOGUE

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF CUTTING FOR MAGGIE MONOLOGUE

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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