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LANGUAGE V

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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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