Brick is the most silent of all the significant characters, although when he speaks, his words have more content than those of others. Big Daddy, in his onstage conversation, or argument, with Brick he laments about the way in which nobody really talks to each other. He claims that although everyone talks to each other they don't really carry any meaning in their words, as if all conversation in the house since his illness has been trivial and almost phatic ("Communication is - awful hard between people"). For Big Daddy Brick, he believes, is the only "honest" person left and he says, "Then there is at least two people that never lied to each other." Much of what Brick says throughout the first act of the play is inconsequential fillers such as "Oh ...", "Uh-huh" and he often repeats what his wife says to him "'Y'know what happened to...