His condemned life as a third-generation slave meant laboring in the hot sun under harsh conditions and under he threat of whips and death.Your kind always does.Maggie: Oh, I""m more determined than you think.I""ll win all right.Brick: Win what?What is, uh, the victory of a cat on a hot in roof?Maggie:Just stayin"" on it, I guess.[Note: Frank doesn""t know she""s the wife of the cafe owner.She continues to dress in ironically virginal white (except for two scenes) throughout the entire picture, accentuating even further her passionate, white-hot, torrid steaminess.] In the local iron foundry at the end of the night shift, fiery, bright flames, smoke and sparks emerge from the blast furnaces - the powerful, hellish fire a symbol of productiveness and destructiveness both in peace and in war-time.She is fearful hat Wick will leave by himself and abandon Don for a four-day, self-destructive weekend: ".