Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,play by Tennessee Williams, produced and published in 1955 and awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
On his sixty-fifth birthday, Big Daddy Pollitt, vulgar, fat, ruthless, and the richest cotton planter of the Mississippi Delta, is surrounded by his family: Brick, his favorite son, a withdrawn, alcoholic ex-football hero, and Brick's wife Maggie, the passionate, vital “cat” who is unrelenting in her struggle to get what she wants; Gooper, the hypocritical, avaricious elder son whose wife Mae is about to produce their sixth “no-neck monster” child; and Big Mama, his loud, garrulous wife of 40 years. Maggie, determined to have marital relations with her remote husband and to produce the heir for the plantation, turns on Brick to tell him that she and his closest friend, Skipper, now dead, had slept together because each needed the warmth that Brick's “godlike” superiority and ideally pure relationship would not provide, and...
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