"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," a 1955 play by Tennessee Williams, explores themes of greed, decay, and repressed desire within the wealthy Pollitt family. The central conflict revolves around inheritance, the childless status of Brick and Maggie, and Brick's internal struggles with homosexuality and alcoholism.
Tennessee Williams' 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' centers on the wealthy and dysfunctional Pollitt family in Mississippi and the inheritance of their vast estate. A key conflict involves Brick and Maggie, who are childless, contrasting with his brother Gooper's large family. Brick struggles with guilt over his homosexuality and resorts to alcoholism.
| Front | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
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| Back | a play Tennessee Williams 1955 Pulitzer prize the action centers on the wealthy and chaotic Pollitt family in Mississippi, and on the question of the inheritance of big daddy Pollitt's 28000 acre estate big daddy has stipulated that to inherit a share of the estate each of his sons must have children Brick , the younger son, and his wife Maggie, the cat of the title, are childless in sharp contrast to Gooper Pollitt and his wife Mae, who already have five children and are expecting another obsessed with guilt over his homosexuality, Brick has returned to alcohol at the end of the play there is a suggestion that Maggie will be able to seduce Brick and conceive a child Cat on a Hot Tin Roof features motifs such as social mores, greed, superficiality, mendacity, decay, sexual desire, repression and death. Dialogue throughout is often rendered phonetically to represent accents of the Southern United States. |
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