Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennassee Williams

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the story of a Southern family in crisis, especially the husband and wife Brick and Margaret (usually called Maggie or "Maggie the Cat"), and their interaction with Brick's family over the course of one evening gathering at the family estate in Mississippi.

Written in 1955.

Key Themes
Sexuality

Society

Wealth

Love

Identity

Key Quotes
BRICK One man has one great good true thing in his life. One great good thing which is true!—I had a friendship with Skipper.—You are naming it dirty!

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BRICK You think so, too? You think so, too? You think me an' Skipper did, did, did!—sodomy!—together?

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BRICK No!—It was too rare to be normal, any true thing between two people is too rare to be normal.

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MARGARET Born poor, raised poor, expect to die poor unless I manage to get us something out of what Big Daddy leaves when he dies of cancer!

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