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Character list
Margaret: The drama’s cat. Maggie’s loneliness and Brick’s refusal to her make her desire, has made her hard, nervous, and bitchy. Brick: Brick embodies an almost archetypal masculinity. At the same time, the Brick before us is also an obviously broken man because of his repressed homosexual desire for his dead friend Skipper. Big Daddy: Daddy is a large, brash, and vulgar plantation millionaire who believes he has returned from the grave. Big Mama: Fat, sincere, earnest, crude, and bedecked in flashy gems. Mae: A mean, agitated "monster of fertility" who schemes with her husband Gooper to secure Big Daddy's estate. Gooper: A successful corporate lawyer. He ruthlessly plots to secure control of the estate.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Overview Character list
Plot Summary of Act II
Themes Symbols Study Questions
Overview
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a drama by Tennessee Williams. One of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. Set in the "plantation home in the Mississippi Delta", the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy's family, primarily between his son Brick and Maggie the "Cat," Brick's wife. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof features several recurring motifs, such as social mores, greed, superficiality, mendacity, decay, sexual desire, repression, and death.
Themes
Manliness and Homosexuality Like many of Williams's works, Cat concerns itself with the elaboration of a certain fantasy of broken manliness, in this case a manliness left crippled by the homosexual desire it must keep in abeyance. Falsehoods and untruths Mendacity (谎言) is a recurring theme throughout the drama. The characters’ statements of feeling are no longer clear-cut truths or lies; instead, they become subject more to certainty or uncertainty. The Father and Son In Cat, the father and son appear in a decidedly narcissistic relation. Brick and Daddy's final struggle marks the reverse side of the narcissistic love between them.
Plot Summary of AcFra Baidu bibliotek II
Act II begins with the first meeting between Big Daddy and Brick of the play, a meeting quickly interrupted by Daddy's birthday festivities. During the conversation, Daddy comes close to the topic that remains repressed between them, and refuses to allow Brick his flight. Indeed, Daddy almost suggests that he understands his son all too well since he "knocked around" himself in the old days and Brick's problem is that he is a repressed homosexual. Daddy finally forces Brick's confession and receives his own "inadmissible thing" in return. This showdown reveals the nature of the love between them.