Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams' Cat on a hot tin roof is really cool due to the fact there is a role reversal in a time where it was completely unacceptable. The reader is lead through a story that seems to have all the "norms" in a struggling marriage in a dysfunctional family. I think to really see all of the ambiguity and struggle with Brick and everyone in his life, one should know Williams. It's know that he was gay and was never able to write openly about it so he weaved it into his works. Williams' life was a bit like Brick's and Williams elucidates to the fact that people are in cages and are placed in them by society. This book has many oppressors and oppressed, but they all have one thing in common-- they are placed into these situations and can not see an out. The group brought up some good points to portray the different aspects that could have been read in the book, and there are always many views of a work, but I feel that Williams is using his writing as a platform to express what he was not allowed to openly speak. 

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