Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 9/14

This movie/play gives us an extreme quality found in everyone; mendacity. Mendacity is more than just a tendency to lie, but it is being untruthful, a way of life. Brick is the most truthful even if the most fake. He constructs something he is not. He is full of hate because he cannot be who he wants to be. Brick is stuck being tied to his sorrow and sourness. He is not necesarilly unhappy with who he has become, but who he cannot be. He does love Maggie, he just hides his real love and pain through alcohol. In some eyes Brick can be viewed as the most truthful character because he never makes an attempt to lie to Big Daddy, but he also shows us that he is the status quo, he is trying to portray a strong person, who gains even more gut with his alcohol consumption, but his strenght is really just weakness.