Maggie

Many would argue given the title of the play that Maggie is the central protagonist. Although Williams has made it clear on numerous occasions that he “sympathised with her and liked her,” to place such a label on her would miss the point of the text and her role within it. At the opening of the play the audience sympathises with the “pretty young woman, with anxious lines in her face” who in contrast to her husband’s apathy seems lively and affectionate; we are led to believe she is undeserving of the cruel lack of intimacy returned by Brick.