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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams

Form
Form Play
Year
Year 1955
Pages
Pages 170

It is the hottest night of a Mississippi summer, and in an upstairs bedroom two people are having the fight of their marriage while a birthday party for a dying man goes on below. Brick, an ex-athlete on crutches, drinks toward the click in his head that makes things peaceful, as Maggie, his wife, talks and talks at him, beautiful and humiliated and starved for a husband who will not touch her.

Think of all the lies I got to put up with! Ain't that mendacity?
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams

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