Brick's descent into alcoholism makes him a weak candidate to manage the estate. The star of his high school football team, he went astray when his friend Skipper died. Brick is a kind of prodigal son who started out as the apple of his father's eye. Much critical interest has focused on the Brick's errant behavior, his relationship, his drinking, and his concern for truth on mendacity. In a general view, this central theme of homosexuality has to do with the crisis of the homosexual minority culture in the mid-twentieth century America. Brick's conflict with the expectation, attitude and oppression of the family and social environment are all caused by his homosexual orientation and thus, every other theme can be and should be related to the theme of homosexuality, or at least, the rising homosexual orientation in Brick that faces a fatal blow, destroying all his life and prospects of happiness. This is basically due to the impact of social stigma (hatred), and in the final analysis, all the psychological problems mentioned here are in turn cause by the social stigma. He is also a schizoid who is psychologically and morally paralyzed. He is somewhat bisexual and somewhat narcissistic. His paradoxical situation, and his inability to speak out and to live a normal life, is supposed to 'expose' the problem of the lives of homosexuals of the time, rather than illustrate or suggest a solution. Brick's story of conflict, suffering and the mind-breaking impact of social stigma is the problematic of the play.

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