Brick and gooper are obstacles for maggie primarily okay all right um they are the thing that she knows stands between her like having any sort of life because brick is killing himself right. If they don't get this land then she will have nothing and she comes from nothing so she needs to have a son by him  and she needs to not lose to the the parents of the no neck monsters that's like maggie's thing. The painful interaction between big daddy and brick about brick's history leads brick to lash out and tell big daddy that no it's not your call you are dying uh and so big daddy flips out and then he leaves the stage, normally we would not see