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"Cat on a hot tin roof" is a play about the convention in society, which tries to dictate the lives of people. Consequently, Tennessee Williams imminently introduces the audience to the subject of mendacity and its malignancy. This is not only shown on a familial level, but on a personal one too (e.g. the affects of Bricks relationship with Skipper). Instantaneously, it seems the family are a rich landed gentility with strong Southern values: "... feed those precious little things with an oilcloth cover... Ohhh nooo! On Big Daddy's birthday?" Ostensibly, the Pollits are the embodiment of the "American dream" (health, wealth and happiness). However, in the overcharged circumstances of the plays 'familial crisis', many truths are revealed: the desperate fear of death, hidden guilt, isolation, the inability to face the truth and materialism. The latter is most notably symbolise
Many of Tennessee Williams' titles often include metaphorical meaning behind it, for example The Glass Menagerie; The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore and The Night of the Iguana. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof also conveys a psychological presentation of Maggie; a mind that is constantly alert and is stifled by her surroundings: ". Maggie is the obvious 'cat' in the play, but to a certain extent many other characters are too, both physically and morally. Historically, the Pollits in Southern America, an area that once dominated America both financially and politically. It may well signify her personality; the constant 'cat-like' movements she makes denote this: ". The first of which is the reality that she must stay 'at the top'. However, with the pass in time, most imminently these Southern values, which form the basis of many Southerners lives, would age and 'die out', comparable to Big Daddy as the ageing, dying, head of the family. The financial power had swung to the North, who notably have many businessmen and lawyers who posses 'lateral thinking', this is symbolised by Gooper's profession. Obtaining the literal meaning of the metaphor would allow you to think of the physical image of a cat bouncing up and down, trying to keep its feet cool. This can be comparable to the cat not only wanting to stay 'cool', but to retain its high status simultaneously.
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