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Contents:
- WAS BRICK GAY THE HOT ROOF?
- CAT ON A HOT T ROOF : IS BRICK REALLY GAY?
- IS BRICK POLLT GAY?IS BRICK POLLT GAY?
- BRICK THROWN AT AN NYC GAY BAR IS BEG VTIGATED AS A HATE CRIME
WAS BRICK GAY THE HOT ROOF?
* is brick a homosexual *
He is a homosexual reprentg the homosexuals of the neteen fifti, so he also reprents the social victims that the homosexuals of the time were. The play ncentrat on the plight of Brick whose life and difficulti symbolize the crisis of the mid-century homosexual culture.
His paradoxil suatn, and his abily to speak out and to live a normal life, is supposed to 'expose' the problem of the liv of homosexuals of the time, rather than illtrate or suggt a solutn. Brick's nflict wh the expectatn, attu and opprsn of the fay and social environment are all ed by his homosexual orientatn; and th, every other theme n be and should be related to the theme of homosexualy, or at least, the risg homosexual orientatn Brick that fac a fatal blow, stroyg all his life and prospects of happs.
In a general view, this central theme of homosexualy has to do wh the crisis of the homosexual mory culture the mid-twentieth century Ameri.
CAT ON A HOT T ROOF : IS BRICK REALLY GAY?
One of New York Cy's newt gay bars has had a brick thrown at s ont wdow four tim recent weeks, s owner says. * is brick a homosexual *
Brick uld have been a fully homosexual personaly, if he was not too sensive about his social image. He married Maggie a hurry jt to prove that he was not the homosexual that people thought him to be: but even jt after his marriage, he seems to have been rather very passive his heterosexual relatnship wh Maggie. Maggie mentns that he was slow, different and lm his sexual terurse, and though she says she like that sort of sex, we doubt that he was passive and different bee of the haner of his homosexual relatn and yearng for Skipper.
IS BRICK POLLT GAY?IS BRICK POLLT GAY?
This means that Brick is a homosexual, but he wanted to play a double-role and be both a homo and heterosexual!
He reprents the homosexual personaly of the era of s transn, and th also s failure and crisis. The thor has only been able to prent the bate before , and not advote for or ny this new phenomenon of homosexualy. To some extent, Brick is a schizoid; and his beg a schizoid is also ed by his hostily towards a fay and society that is hostile agast the very ia of homosexualy.
Another problem related to and ed by his homosexualy is that of beg psychologilly and morally paralyzed. The nscns of the social stigma attached to homosexualy breaks down Brick's md and spir. Round and round, each of the and all other problems boil down to the homosexualy and s social and psychologil impact on Brick.
BRICK THROWN AT AN NYC GAY BAR IS BEG VTIGATED AS A HATE CRIME
Th, would not be an exaggeratn to say that homosexualy is the cx of all the problems of Brick's life'.
He stggl wh his iend Skipper’s ath, his own role that ath, and the homosexual tensns surroundg their relatnship. problem that is ually assumed to be homosexualy, although 's.