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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Made by Shannon Amy CONTENTS Overview Character list Plot Summary of Act II Themes Symbols Study Questions 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?is a?drama by?Tennessee Williams. One of Williamss best-known works and his personal favorite, the play won the?Pulitzer Prize for Drama?in?1955. Set in the plantation home in the?Mississippi Delta, the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddys family, primarily between his son Brick and Maggie the Cat, Bricks wife. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?features several recurring motifs, such as social mores, greed, superficiality, mendacity, decay, sexual desire, repression, and death. Overview Character list Margaret: The drama’s cat. Maggie’s loneliness and Brick’s refusal to her make her desire, has made her hard, nervous, and bitchy. Brick: Brick embodies an almost archetypal masculinity. At the same time, the Brick before us is also an obviously broken man because of his repressed homosexual desire for his dead friend Skipper. Big Daddy: Daddy is a large, brash, and vulgar plantation millionaire who believes he has returned from the grave. ? Big Mama: Fat, sincere, earnest, crude, and bedecked in flashy gems.? Mae: A mean, agitated monster of fertility who schemes with her husband Gooper to secure Big Daddys estate. Gooper:? A successful corporate lawyer. He ruthlessly plots to secure control of the estate. Plot Summary of Act II Act II begins with the first meeting between Big Daddy and Brick of the play, a meeting quickly interrupted by Daddys birthday festivities.?During the conversation, Daddy comes close to the topic that remains repressed between them, and refuses to allow Brick his flight. ?Indeed, Daddy almost suggests that he understands his son all too well since he knocked around himself in the old days and Bricks problem is that he is a repressed homosexual.?Daddy finally forces Bricks confession and receives his own inadmissible thing in return. This showdown re