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* MsFanservice: She's a sexy, curvaceous seductress who's been played by such famed beauties as Elizabeth Taylor and Scarlett Johansson.
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* MsFanservice: She's a sexy, curvaceous seductress who's been played by such famed beauties as Elizabeth Taylor Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Scarlett Johansson.Creator/ScarlettJohansson.
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* TheGhost: He's dead before the play begins, but his presents haunts everyone, especially Brick.
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* TheGhost: He's dead before the play begins, but his presents prescence haunts everyone, especially Brick.
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* GoldDigger: Subverted, because Maggie is actually in love with Brick.
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* GoldDigger: Subverted, because Maggie is actually in love with Brick. But money is also important to her because she grew up poor and really doesn't want to be poor again.
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* BeautyIsBad: Brick's good looks are alluded to by nearly every character in the play. He's also bitter, [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]], and antagonistic.
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* HotGuysAreBastards: Brick's good looks are alluded to by nearly every character in the play. He's also bitter, [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]], and antagonistic.
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* TheAlcoholicTheAlcoholic: Became one after Skipper's death.
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** In the very first scene of the play, she strips down to a slip. She doesn't redress until halfway through Act One.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Maggie must marry into wealth, rather than making her own like her [[Foil]] Big Daddy. Granted, this is the 1950s.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Maggie must marry into wealth, rather than making her own like her [[Foil]] Big Daddy. Granted, this is the 1950s.
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** In the very first scene of the play, she [[LingerieScene strips down to a slip. slip.]] She doesn't redress until halfway through Act One.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Maggie must marry into wealth, rather than making her own like her[[Foil]] {{Foil}} Big Daddy. Granted, this is the 1950s.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Maggie must marry into wealth, rather than making her own like her
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* ButtMonkey: Her maladroit antics are entertaining, but rather painfully, as Big Daddy highlights them to verbally abuse her.
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* ExtremeDoormat
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Twice. First, when bumbling, friendly, maternal Big Mama bursts into tears after the latest in decades of rejection by her husband, and second, when she finally GrewASpine to tell off the meddling Gooper-Mae duo.
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--> '''Big Mama:''' I'm talking in Big Daddy's languge now. I'm his wife, not his widow. I'm still his wif!
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--> '''Big Mama:''' I'm talking in Big Daddy's languge now. I'm his wife, not his widow. I'm still his wif!wife!
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
* SelectiveObliviousness: She pretends Brick is still is former youthful golden boy self, acts like her relationship with Big Daddy is healthy, and refuses to acknowledge the idea that he's fatally ill. She's not just an idiot, though; she picks up on the cracks in Brick and Maggie's marriage and [[TookALevelInBadass shuts down Mae and Gooper's plot]] to take over the family empire. Heartbreakingly, she even shows a comprehension that Big Daddy doesn't really love her at one point.
* TookALevelInBadass
--> '''Big Mama:''' I'm talking in Big Daddy's languge now. I'm his wife, not his widow. I'm still his wif!
--> '''Gooper:''' What we've got here...
--> '''Mae:''' What Gooper's saying is just a plan, a basis.
--> '''Big Mama:''' I'll tell you what your plan is. Margaret, what is it Big Daddy always says when he's disgusted?
---> '''Maggie:''' He says bull when he's disgusted.
--> '''Big Mama:''' Yes, that's right. I say bull too, like Big Daddy.
--> '''Mae:''' Well, coarse language don't seem called for to me.
--> '''Big Mama:''' Bull!
* SelectiveObliviousness: She pretends Brick is still is former youthful golden boy self, acts like her relationship with Big Daddy is healthy, and refuses to acknowledge the idea that he's fatally ill. She's not just an idiot, though; she picks up on the cracks in Brick and Maggie's marriage and [[TookALevelInBadass shuts down Mae and Gooper's plot]] to take over the family empire. Heartbreakingly, she even shows a comprehension that Big Daddy doesn't really love her at one point.
* TookALevelInBadass
--> '''Big Mama:''' I'm talking in Big Daddy's languge now. I'm his wife, not his widow. I'm still his wif!
--> '''Gooper:''' What we've got here...
--> '''Mae:''' What Gooper's saying is just a plan, a basis.
--> '''Big Mama:''' I'll tell you what your plan is. Margaret, what is it Big Daddy always says when he's disgusted?
---> '''Maggie:''' He says bull when he's disgusted.
--> '''Big Mama:''' Yes, that's right. I say bull too, like Big Daddy.
--> '''Mae:''' Well, coarse language don't seem called for to me.
--> '''Big Mama:''' Bull!
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* CorruptHick: He knows that Big Daddy is SecretlyDying and hopes to take advantage of that by unsubtly trying to wheedle more funds using his powerful religious influence.
* NoSocialSkills: Can't take the hint and leave even as the atmosphere become more and more tense. Even when he does exit, he's awkward.
* PreacherMan
! Reverend Tooker
* CorruptHick: He knows that Big Daddy is SecretlyDying and hopes to take advantage of that by unsubtly trying to wheedle more funds using his powerful religious influence.
* NoSocialSkills: Can't take the hint and leave even as the atmosphere become more and more tense. Even when he does exit, he's awkward.
* PreacherMan
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* OnlyOneName
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* AmoralAttorney: We don't get to see him in court, but outside of it he certainly isn't the most upstanding citizen.
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* ManlyGay: He's a Southern football player in the 1950s.
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* ManlyGay: He's a Southern football player in the 1950s.ManlyGay
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* LikeParentLikeSpouse: A tragic example. Maggie's father was an alcoholic who took advantage of his wife's hard work and generosity. The situation reflects Maggie's own.
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* MsFanservice: She's a sexy, curvaceous seductress who's been played by such famed beauties as Elizabeth Taylor and Scarlett Johansson.
** In the very first scene of the play, she strips down to a slip. She doesn't redress until halfway through Act One.
** In the very first scene of the play, she strips down to a slip. She doesn't redress until halfway through Act One.
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* MrFanservice: Chiseled football player, most famously played by Paul Newman.
** He first appears coming out of the shower. Usually, this means very little clothing.
** He first appears coming out of the shower. Usually, this means very little clothing.
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* ImpoverishedPatrician: We find out through Maggie that though Mae comes from BlueBlood, her family had lost all of their money before she married into the Pollitts.
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* ManlyGay: He's a Southern football player in the 1950s.
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* TheDutifulSon: Responsible and professionally successful, Gooper exemplifies this. That is, until he tries to swindle his way out of a PassedOverInheritance.
* InadequateInheritor
* InadequateInheritor
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* RichBitch
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* ManlyGuy: He's a Southern football player in the 1950s.
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* ManlyGuy: ManlyGay: He's a Southern football player in the 1950s.
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* UptownGuy: He's rich, Maggie's "as poor as Job's turkey."
* BabyFactory: With five kids and one on the way, there's a reason Big Daddy dubs her a "good breeder."
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* BuryYourGays: Skipper commits suicide after a disastrous, aborted attempt to come out to Brick.
* TheGhost: He's dead before the play begins, but his presents haunts everyone, especially Brick.
* ManlyGuy: He's a Southern football player in the 1950s.
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* BuryYourGays: Skipper commits suicide after a disastrous, aborted attempt to come out to Brick.
* TheGhost: He's dead before the play begins, but his presents haunts everyone, especially Brick.
* ManlyGuy: He's a Southern football player in the 1950s.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Mae is frequently on the receiving end of Maggie's sharp wit and snide jabs.
* GoldDigger: Subverted, because Maggie is actually in love with Brick.
* AmbiguouslyBi: At one point, he and Maggie had a healthy, ''loving'' relationship. There's also some heavy implications he may have harbored romantic feelings for his best friend, Skipper.
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* ProdigalHero
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Only to Gooper.
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LadyMacbeth: Gooper and Mae serve as the villains of the play, and Mae is certainly the [[VicariouslyAmbitious driving force of ambition]] for her mild-mannered husband, who mostly just wants to impress his father.
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* FakePregnancy: "I've got life in me!"
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--> '''Brick:''' It just hasn't happened yet, Maggie...The click I get in my head when I've had enough of this stuff to make me peaceful.
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--> '''Brick:''' It just hasn't happened yet, Maggie...The click I get It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head when I've had enough head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of this stuff to make me peaceful.a sudden there's peace.
* CallingTheOldManOut: When his attempt to inherit Big Daddy's fortune, company, and legacy falls through, he does this.
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* DefrostingIceQueen: An interesting variation. She's charming, for an Ice Queen, but certainly as poised, aloof, and guarded as one: privately, she's [[DesperatelyCravesAffection desperate for Brick's affections]].
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Specifically, Brick's. He knows it, and uses it to punish her.
* DesperatelyCravesAffection: Specifically, Brick's. He knows it, and uses it to punish her.
* DrowningMySorrows
--> '''Brick:''' It just hasn't happened yet, Maggie...The click I get in my head when I've had enough of this stuff to make me peaceful.
--> '''Brick:''' It just hasn't happened yet, Maggie...The click I get in my head when I've had enough of this stuff to make me peaceful.
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* JerkassWoobie: He's an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] and borders on a DomesticAbuser, though he wasn't always this way: [[spoiler: his guilt over potentially contributing to the suicide of his best friend]] sent him into a spiral of addiction and depression.
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* JerkassWoobie: He's an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] and borders on a DomesticAbuser, though he wasn't always this way: [[spoiler: [[ItsAllMyFault his guilt over potentially contributing to the suicide of his best friend]] friend]]]] sent him into a spiral of addiction and depression.
* SourOutsideSadInside
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* [[Foil]]: With Big Daddy. Both of them are charming, manipulative, self-made people who grew up poor and work hard to get what they want. It's why they earn each other's respect.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Maggie must marry into wealth, rather than making her own like her [[Foil]] Big Daddy. Granted, this is the 1950s,
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Maggie must marry into wealth, rather than making her own like her [[Foil]] Big Daddy. Granted, this is the 1950s,
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* [[Foil]]: {{Foil}}: With Big Daddy. Both of them are charming, manipulative, self-made people who grew up poor and work hard to get what they want. It's why they earn each other's respect.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Maggie must marry into wealth, rather than making her own like her [[Foil]] Big Daddy. Granted, this is the1950s,
1950s.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Maggie must marry into wealth, rather than making her own like her [[Foil]] Big Daddy. Granted, this is the
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* HotGuysAreBastards: Brick's good looks are alluded to by nearly every character in the play. He's also bitter, [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]], and antagonistic.
* JerkassWoobie: He's an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] and borders on a DomesticAbuser, though he wasn't always this way: [[spoiler: his guilt over potentially contributing to the suicide of his best friend]] sent him into a spiral of addiction and depression.
* HotGuysAreBastards: Brick's good looks are alluded to by nearly every character in the play. He's also bitter, [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]], and antagonistic.
* JerkassWoobie: He's an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] and borders on a DomesticAbuser, though he wasn't always this way: [[spoiler: his guilt over potentially contributing to the suicide of his best friend]] sent him into a spiral of addiction and depression.
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* [[Foil]]: DomesticAbuser:
* {{Foil}}: With Maggie. Both of them are charming, manipulative, self-made people who grew up poor and work hard to get what they want. It's why they earn each other's respect.
* {{Foil}}: With Maggie. Both of them are charming, manipulative, self-made people who grew up poor and work hard to get what they want. It's why they earn each other's respect.
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* Foil: [[Foil]]: With Big Daddy. Both of them are charming, manipulative, self-made people who grew up poor and work hard to get what they want. It's why they earn each other's respect.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Maggie must marry into wealth, rather than making her own like her [[Foil]] Big Daddy. Granted, this is the 1950s,
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Maggie must marry into wealth, rather than making her own like her [[Foil]] Big Daddy. Granted, this is the 1950s,
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DirtyOldMan: Maggie notes that he shamelessly admires her figure.
*Foil: [[Foil]]: With Maggie. Both of them are charming, manipulative, self-made people who grew up poor and work hard to get what they want. It's why they earn each other's respect.
*IWantGrandkids: Never explicitly stated, and he technically already has several from Gooper and Mae, but he clearly wants at least one from his favorite son and beloved daughter-in-law before he goes.
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*IWantGrandkids: Never explicitly stated, and he technically already has several from Gooper and Mae, but he clearly wants at least one from his favorite son and beloved daughter-in-law before he goes.
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* TheUnFavorite: And how.
* TheUnFavorite: And how.
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! Big Daddy
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* Foil: With Maggie. Both of them are charming, manipulative, self-made people who grew up poor and work hard to get what they want. It's why they earn each other's respect.
* NouveauRiche
* SelfMadeMan: Went from [[RagsToRiches poor anonymity to wealth, class, and respect]] through hard work and smart networking.
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! Gooper
! Mae
! Dr. Baugh
! Reverend Tooker
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! Brick Pollitt
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* Foil: With Maggie. Both of them are charming, manipulative, self-made people who grew up poor and work hard to get what they want. It's why they earn each other's respect.
* NouveauRiche
* SelfMadeMan: Went from [[RagsToRiches poor anonymity to wealth, class, and respect]] through hard work and smart networking.
* SouthernGentleman
! Big Mama
! Gooper
! Mae
! Dr. Baugh
! Reverend Tooker
