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LANGUAGE V
Individual assignment 7
Agostina Minini
Traductorado de Ingls
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Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
Facultad de Filosofa y Letras
Departamento de Ingls
Idioma Ingls V
Prof. Poveda
Cat on a Hot Tin Roo! A "la# Revie$
Tennessee Williams made his name after winning two Pulitzer Prizes on the plays
A Streetcar Named Desireand Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He is recognized for dealing with
controversial issues in a very straightforward way, like his addiction to drugs and
alcohol and his homoseuality. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, his masterpiece, is not an
eception to his style. The play is emotionally engaging and powerful, which reveals
unpleasant truths a!out the author"s alcohol a!use and his homoseuality and mendacity
in the face of a family crisis.
#ven !efore reading the play, the reader foreshadows that it comprises different
topics from the ones they read a!out, since Williams declares he is outspoken on his
different world. The play is set during the $%"s in &ississippi, in a plantation that used
to !elong to a homoseual couple 'ack (traw and Peter )chello. *s the play unfolds,
intricacies !etween truth and mendacity eteriorize. +pon reading the second act, rick
is una!le to accept his homoseuality after his father"s confrontation. -et, the hard
truth is su!tly revealed, since the play was pu!lished in a conservative society. rick
refused for years to sleep with his wife &argaret and they are childless. n addition,
rick !ecomes an alcoholic to vent his pent/up feelings after (keeper, his good friend,
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commits suicide. He is discontented with society, a society that raises preudices against
his seual orientation2 therefore, he isolates himself from it.
The second hidden truth that comes to surface is ig 3addy"s denial of his disease.
ig 3addy, a wealthy patriarch, tries to talk openly with his son rick2 however, he is
distant, since his words are empty and circular. When his son finally tells him that he
has cancer, tension among themselves is skillfully !uilt with the appropriate atmosphere
that displays their feelings. *t this point, the 4uestion if we should tell a family mem!er
of their impending death is raised.
Williams fully achieved human characters that display a spectrum of feelings like
veation, fear, disgust, grief, among others. t is though repetition of words that he
!uilds a dramatic scenario that reflects that some hard truths are difficult to accept. y
the end, this captivating play raises a moral 4uestion a!out the truth5 s it !etter to live
!y a !itter and painful truth or !y mendacity6
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