setting - he bed-sitting room of a plantation home in the Mississippi Delta 1950s
Plot elements - Maggie and brick fighting
Gooper and Maes kids running about, Maggie wanting kids
Big Daddy has cancer, no one wants to tell him
Brick drinks after skipper died
Ends with brick telling big daddy has cancer, Maggie telling everyone she is pregnant
Stage directions - Informal and very personal
Characterization- Brick - Drunk married to Maggie, hates her for having relationship with Skipper
Maggie- Bricks Wife, wants kids
Mae- Goopers wife, doesn’t like brick or maggie
Gooper- Bricks brother, doesn’t say much other that he is a lawyer
The Kids- They have silly names
Big Daddy- Owns plantation, has cancer
Big momma- Big daddys wife
Symbols- Crutch
liquor cabenent
kids
Themes- Family disfunction
Style- southern, lots of dialog
structure- three acts
literary devices- Illustion imagry
Dialog- Southern words, Short sentences between eachother. Big daddys speach