Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, was a play original written by Tennessee Williams. William’s work was brought up unique story concepts for its era. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a drama filled play. The setting took place on a Mississippi plantation home. The story consists of the characters Big Daddy who is dying of cancer, Gooper the son of big daddy and his wife Mae. They are both quite the shallow characters who appear to be greedy and would like to get a share in the planation’ estate. Brick is an alcoholic who is grieving for a lost friend Skipper, who confessed his love for Brick. Finally, there the head strong character named Maggie, who has a shaky marriage with Brick.

The purpose of my group’s presentation,
 is to intrigue our fellow classmates and get them to interact with each other. And what better way to get their interest on the subject than to act out the dramatic scenes of the play. Plays are meant to be acted out and not just read.

Next, for each scene we will present questions to the class. We will award those that participate and answer the questions we have prepared. The questions will include material from the following excerpts Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and Dukore’s The Cat Has Nine Lives.

I learned several things while working in this group. For instance, in the first meeting I discovered we each had different interpretations from the text. In many ways, I believe that’s what made this play brilliant. Williams never quite established what may become of the characters or if Brick did indeed have a relation with skipper. I think that what’s make the play unique because people could make up their own thoughts concerning the ending resolution.

Also, I learned that an open communication is very important when coming to group objects. We had a difficult time deciding on what to do for the presentation and finding a way to meet. We tried holding a meeting via Skype, Voodoo, E-mails, text, and phone calsl but we still had a difficult time coming together at once. However, in the end we worked together.


We decided to address three general concepts and themes such as Class, Sexuality and Gender. My participation in the group was to rewrite and condense the scene that addressed gender theme. At first, I found it difficult to condense the play’s text, but in the end I was successful. After I condensed one of the three scenes the group was covering, I come up with questions that I would present to the class. For my scene, I choose two characters Maggie
and Mae to show the relationship of women. In Simone de Beaviour, she refers to women as the “Second Sex”. The women in the play are fighting for attention and affection. The women demonstrate Simone de Beauvoir’s theory that women don’t unite with one another to make a difference in how they are displayed by society. In her theory she explains how women are seen as defenseless and dependent on their man.