Theme on Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
There are many themes in the story Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. The theme I’m going to be focusing on is the truth vs. mendacity. Big Daddy in some of the versions of Cat On A Hat Tin Roof says Mendacity is "having to pretend stuff you don’t think or feel or have any idea of” Through out the play Big Daddy and Brick use this word “mendacity”. Mendacity is all over this big house or plantation, whether it’s about Big Daddy’s illness or Bricks drinking problem or no love between brothers or sons and fathers or wives and husbands but its all lied about. The first example of truth vs. mendacity is between Brick and Big daddy. Big Daddy has cancer and everyone in the house knows he has cancer and knows he is going to pass away but no one says anything. Except Brick when they were fighting and in the heat of the moment Brick sprays it out. Now everyone kept quite about Big Daddy’s illness the doctor even lied to him because he wanted to soften the blow before he told him he was going to die. Now I know if I had cancer and all my family members knew it and I was clueless and they kept it on the hush, I would be outraged when I found out that they k
Also in this house most of the family just act like they love each other, or maybe feel like they have too just because they are family members. Big Daddy who could write a book on mendacity spills out a lot of truth for example. He tells his own wife that he can’t stand her. He always made smart comments or made fun of her but he says he doesn’t love her. That is not unlike Brick and Maggie Brick does not love Maggie enough to have a child together. Brick doesn’t love Maggie enough to have sex with her. So here are two marriages with out love. Gooper married some one and had five kids which don’t mean he loves them but nothing in this play says he doesn’t. Gooper on the other hand is not loved by his own immediate family. Big momma says, where’s Brick, Where’s Brick my only son, while Gooper is in that very room. Than Big Daddy enters the room and totally ignores Gooper and tells a joke to Brick. How would you feel if you’re alcoholic probably homosexual brother (In those years it was frowned upon) gets all the attention and your not even considered to be part of the family. new the whole time and didn’t tell me.
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Personally Brick,
Gooper Daddy,
Maggie Brick,
Tennessee Williams,
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Roof Mendacity,
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Where’s Brick,
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personally brick,
vs mendacity,
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mea gooper,
love maggie,
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bricks drinking,
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