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{{quote|''I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?''|'''Big Daddy'''}}
A 1955 play that won Tennessee Williams his second Pulitzer Prize, ''[[Cat
The story concerns the Pollitt family, and all the ugly family issues that rear its ugly head as they reunite for its patriarch, Big Daddy's birthday. Big Daddy, unaware that he's dying, tries desperately to connect to his angry, alcoholic favored son, Brick, who is married to Maggie. Meanwhile, the other family members try desperately to suck up to Big Daddy to get some of his fortune. Of course, tensions between father and son have to be resolved some time...
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* [[The Disease That Shall Not Be Named]]: Big Daddy has <s>cancer</s> a spastic colon.
* [[Disowned Adaptation]]: The 1958 film. Tennessee Williams allegedly would tell people in the queue to go home.
* [[Double Standard Rape (Female
* [[Downer Ending]]: The original ending was this. Later, Williams wrote a [[Bittersweet Ending]] at the insistance of the stage director, Elia Kazan. The published version of the play contains both endings, with Williams offering the reader to choose between them.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Skipper
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* [[Ignore the Fanservice]]: Maggie walks around wearing a sexy white slip, but Brick refuses even to touch her.
* [[It's All Junk]]: In the film, Brick does this to his family's possessions to send a message to his father about the importance of personal love rather than material love.
* [[Jerk
* [[Lingerie Scene]]: Maggie has one at the beginning.
* [[The Masochism Tango]]: Brick appearently hates Maggie, and he can't even bear to touch her - but he says that he won't divorce her.
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