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Symbols of Dependency
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Maggie
What does dependency look like?
Coming from a poor family,
not wanting to go back.
A person can show to be more clingy towards the person or object.
Dependency is a type of
addictive situation.
Does she do everything for
Brick because she's afraid
to lose this dependency?
"Brick, y'know, I've been so goddam disgustingly poor all my life!-That's the truth, Brick!" (Williams 38)
Caesura
But, Dependency is NOT
addiction, but both work
in similar ways
Symbols Within The Characters
Big Daddy
What do you depend on?
How he views life when he is sick.
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof by: Tennessee Williams
Very optimistic
"Big Daddy: 'Who said I was "leaving the place" to Gooper or anybody? This is my sixty-fifth birthday! I got fifteen years or twenty years left in me! I'll outlive you! I'll bury you an' have to pay for your coffin!'" (Williams 99)
Aphorism
Brick
Mae
Irony
Advantages in the house
How does liquor affect him?
How do Brick's crutches affect
the people around him?
Normal Family
Archetype
"Big Daddy: 'You started drinking when your friend Skipper died.' (Silence for five beats. Then Brick makes a startled movement, reaching for his crutch.)" (Williams 88)
"Mae: 'Maggie, honey, if you had children of your own you'd know how funny that is. Will you please lock this up and put the key out of reach?'" (Willims 23)
Sources
Symbols of Dependency
- "Dependent Personality Disorder Symptoms." Psych Central. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2016
- "Co-Dependency." <i>Co-Dependency</i>. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2016.
- Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New York: New Directions, 1975. Print
- "Literary Devices | Literary Terms." Literary Devices | Literary Terms. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2016.