show off to Brick's father, Big Daddy and to show up the fact that Maggie and Brick are "totally childless and therefore totally useless!" She lets us know her thoughts by telling Brick "it's so obvious what they're up to!" and when he finally appears from out of the bathroom he says to Maggie "No, I don't know what they're up to." as if he couldn't care less either. She finally lets us all know what she thinks Mae and Gooper are plotting, she tells Brick, "they're up to cutting you out of your father's estate" and then drops the bombshell "-Now we know Big Daddy's dyin' of - cancer..."
             As an audience, we expect Brick to take to the news badly, however, his only reaction is to ask "Do we...Know Big Daddy's dyin' of cancer?" When Maggie tell him that they received the report just that day, he simply says "Oh..." This now only leaves us to believe that Brick doesn't care who benefits from the inheri
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