Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Tennessee Williams
'Big Daddy' Pollitt, the richest cotton planter in the Mississippi Delta, is about to celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday. His two sons have returned home for the occasion: Gooper, his wife and children, Brick, an ageing football hero who has turned to drink, and his feisty wife Maggie. As the hot summer evening unfolds, the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge and greed, lies, jealousy and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach boiling point. Made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterly portrayal of family tensions and individuals trapped in prisons of their own making.
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Author
Tennessee Williams
Pages
144
Publisher
Penguin Books Limited
Published Date
2014-04-24
ISBN
0141975075 9780141975078
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"Don’t get me wrong, the play was fine. The interpersonal relationships of the characters were interesting enough, but I’m pretty tired of the tragic gay character plot lines. I know that’s kind of the point, the tragedy of the relationship between Skipper and Brick, and I know that what was shown was pretty controversial for its time, but Brick was such a horrible character to read. Like he felt so unsympathetic, and I can’t help but notice that the queer rep was of a dead man and a depressed alcoholic. I can understand why people fell in love with it, and I can recognize it as a piece of queer history in media, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. "
Dylan Thomas (she/her)