Big Daddy and the American Dream in Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Ti

Big Daddy and the American Dream in Tennessee Williams cast on a Hot potty detonator Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a thought-provoking draw that explores human relationships of all kinds. The character of Brick is compel to examine the relationship with his friend, Skipper, his wife, his family, and himself. Other characters, Gooper, Mae, and Big Mama, demonstrate stifling spousal relationships. Big Daddy, though, is one of the most interesting characters in that he illustrates the impertinent relationship one can have with ones possessions. Watt and Richardson, the editors, state that the play is about acquisitiveness. That is, the acquiring of material possessions is central to the play, and this family. The Pollitts own a grove home on the Mississippi Delta. Their house is a key assure in the work as much as any of the characters are in that it encapsulates the familys legacy of secrecy. To begin with, there is the central staging discipline of Brick an d Maggies bedroom. This room was once shared by the former owners, two men, a fact that seems to haunt Brick. Williams describes the decor of the room in some detail. He is most occupied with the console combination of radio-phonograph, TV set and hard liquor cabinet. He seems incredulous at the size and symbolism in this possession. He writes, This piece of furniture (?), this monument, is a very completer and compact little shut in to virtually all the comforts and illusions behind which we hide from such things as the characters in the play are faced with . . . (Williams 660). He is quite right. non only does Brick hide behind the liquor in the cabinet, his true crutch, still the furniture does exemplify all the modern conveniences that many p... ... clay that he speaks of is more than the lying and liars that adjacently surround him it is not just his family. The system that he lives in is materialism. He has bought into the American dream, in effect capitalism, and has at cash in ones chips found it lacking. Yet it is doubtful that this revelation will in truth change Big Daddy in the way he lives his last days. For Williams words concerning Brick ring true for Daddy as well. He writes, I dont believe a conversation, however relevatory, ever effects so immediate a change in the heart or even make of a person (706 act 3). Big Daddy is trapped in his American dream even as it has become his nightmare.Work CitedWilliams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In Stages of Drama pure to Contemporary Theater. Ed. Carl H. Klaus, Miriam Gilvert, and Bradford S. Field, Jr., 4th ed. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 1999.