Suspense Plot Clarification:
Example with Dialogue

THE PLAYWRITING SEMINARS > STRUCTURE > SHAPE > DIAGRAM > INCITING > PLOTS > SUSPENSE > TECHNIQUES > EXAMPLE > WITH DIALOGUE

'We like to label people and suddenly when something about a character doesn't conform with the label, we get somehow irritated. Once you can put a label on somebody, you can put it in a drawer and you are done with it. But when you discover a character has different aspects, that someone you thought was 100 percent bad turns out to be only 50 percent bad, then it becomes very puzzling and we want to argue about it.'

-- Milos Forman

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Here's the annotated version -- with the playwright's dialogue -- of the introduction and clarification of the Suspense Plot from CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF . . .

		MARGARET
...
-- Of course it's comical but it's also 
disgusting since it's so obvious what they're 
up to!

		BRICK
	(Without interest)
What are they up to, Maggie?

		MARGARET
Why, you know what they're up to!

		BRICK
No, I don't know what they're up to.
	
	(He stands there in the bathroom 
	doorway drying his hair ....)

		MARGARET
I'll tell you what they're up to, boy of mine! 
-- They're up to cutting you out of your 
father's estate, and --

	(She freezes momentarily before her 
	next remark. ...)