Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was a popular play written by Tennessee Williams that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. This play is based on one of Tennessee Williams’ previous short stories titled “Three Players of a Summer Game.” The drama is a three-act play that starts, continues, and ends in a single bedroom. It is set in a plantation home in the Mississippi Delta. Williams won his first Pulitzer Prize for his play A Streetcar Named Desire, and this was his second one. The major theme of the play includes mendacity or falsehood, and unrequited love.
Brick Pollitt is a good-looking handsome married man with a cool attitude marked with aloofness. His good looks win love and favor for him from all including his parents and his beautiful wife Margaret also called Maggie. However, he is unable to reciprocate their love. Maggie continues to try and win Brick’s affection but fails and suffers unrequited love. Maggie is a vivacious woman who deeply loves her husband but fails to win his love. She is desperate to get Brick not only for her own satisfaction but also to make a claim on the fortunes of the Pollitt family for which she needs an heir. Big Daddy is the father of Brick and he is also as impressive and aloof,. Big Mama is Brick’s mother and like Magie, she also fails to win her husband’s approval. While Big Daddy is suffering a prolonged illness, Big Mama is taking care of the plantation and businesses. Big Daddy is a cancer patient however, he and his wife Big Mama do not know about his cancer and that he is near his death. Gooper is Brick’s elder brother and Mae is his wife. Gooper is jealous of Brick the favorite child of their parents. However, Gooper and Mae have children and Gooper tries to take control of Pollitt's estate. Mae continues to taunt Maggie for her barrenness. Dr. Baugh is the family doctor. He is sensitive and intelligent. He allows Brick and Gooper to make their own decision about when and whether to tell Big Mama and Big Daddy about the patriarch's terminal condition. Skipper is a dead friend of Brick who committed suicide.
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