No matter of how you name this term, mendacity, lies, affectation or deception, that is something that leads over our actions and lives. The play is dominated by the constant use of lies and deception, throughout the all text. Sometimes you're simply not sure about what a lie is and what the truth is or who is lying and who is not. At the very beginning of the play, the reader is submerged in the sea of lies. Proceeding with the owner of a cotton business and owner of thousands of acres of fertile field in the Mississippi Delta, Big Daddy.
