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1
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Maggie calling the children names

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No neck monsters

2
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Maggie confronting big mamas double standards

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Why don’t you ask if he makes me happy in bed?

3
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Maggie is unjustly judged

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THATS NOT FAIR!

4
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Maggies depressing outlook on life

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Born poor, raised poor, expect to die poor

5
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Maggie about Mae

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That monster of fertility

6
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Maggie’s remark to Mae who has been spying on her

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Sister woman! You’re wasting your talents as a housewife and mother, you really ought to be with the fbi!

7
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Maggie’s lonesome statement

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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one who you love doesn’t love you

8
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Bricks sharp mouthed remark to big daddy hinting about his illness

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Many happy returns when they know there won’t be any

9
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Brick, dramatically to big daddy, about him being gay

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You call me your son and a queer

10
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Bricks reason for drinking

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DISGUST!

11
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Maggie talking about age and money

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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it

12
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Brick denying allegations that him and skipper were lovers

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You think me and skipper did dirty things between us? Skipper an-

13
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Bricks fazed, distant character not realising Maggie was talking to him

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Did you say something Maggie?

14
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Big daddy’s fantasies

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I’ll smother her in minks

15
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Big daddy mini monologue about buying and death

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He buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting

16
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Big daddy wants the radio/music off

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Turn that damn thing off!

17
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Brick’s statement about skipper and his friendship

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One great good true thing in his life. One great good thing which is true

18
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BD rude remark to BM

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Bossing. Talking. Sashaying your fat old body

19
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BD comment on goopers wife

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Goopers wife’s a good breeder

20
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BD wealth statement

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Yep, I’m a mighty rich man

21
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BD pig statement

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A pig squeals, a man keeps a tight mouth about it.

22
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Maggie recalling how BD finds her sexually attractive

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Drops his eyes to my boobs and licks his old chops

23
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Big daddy rudely (interrogative) remarking to BM

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Will you quit horsin’?

24
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BM’s true love for BD

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I loved your hate and your hardness

25
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BD to brick about how Maggie is more attractive than goopers wife

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Your woman has better shape on her than goopers

26
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BM statement about disliking locked places/private places

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I hate locked doors

27
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BM baby talking to brick(vocative)

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Who’s my baby?

28
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Stage directions about big mama and her voice

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[her riotous voice, booming laugh]

29
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Stage directions about how BM is similar to a bulldog

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[huffing and puffing like an old bulldog]

30
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BM using diminutives when talking to brick

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Oh you bad boy, oh you’re my little bad boy

31
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Big mamma defending big daddy’s money

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Nobody’s goin’ to take nothing! - till Big Daddy lets go of it, and maybe just possibly, not even then

32
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BM questioning Maggie if she is making brick happy in bed

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Do you make brick happy in bed?

33
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Stage directions about big mama being tense

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[always tended, like a boxer or rather a Japanese wrestler]

34
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Goopers declaration that he always loved big daddy but more subtly

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I always loved BD in my own quiet way

35
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Mae handing over the briefcase to gooper

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Here’s your briefcase, honey