Big Daddy

Big Daddy is the ultimate realisation of the American dream. The patriarch of a growing family with seemingly endless self-acquired wealth, Big Daddy’s purpose in the play is to draw attention to the futility of affluence as an objective, much the same way Maggie is positioned to dismiss the importance of overstated beauty. As such, his role in Act 2 is almost identical to Maggie’s in Act 1 as he goes on anxious long-winded monologues that are self-indulgent yet equally dependent on the validation of an uninterested Brick.