Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Essays and Criticism

  • In Search of Blessings

    In this essay the author discusses the possibility that the play centers not on homosexuality or truth but on the need for blessings conferred by a dying patriarch.

  • Willams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Huzzard examines sex roles in Williams's play. The critic's primary theme is that of the sexual ambivalence that the male characters feel toward the female characters, particularly Brick and Big Daddy as they respond to their respective spouses.

  • Review of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    In this 1955 review, Bentley addresses claims that Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is among the first dramas to deal with homosexuality. Despite some advances over his contemporaries, however, Williams—in Bentley's view—has not yet approached the subject in a direct or satisfactory manner.