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

Big dada and the Ameri good deal Dream in Tennessee Williams sick on a acerbic Tin Roof Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a thought-provoking goldbrick that explores human relationships of all(a) kinds. The char proceeder of Brick is forced to examine the relationship with his friend, Skipper, his wife, his family, and himself. another(prenominal) characters, Gooper, Mae, and Big Mama, demonstrate stifling marriage relationships. Big Daddy, though, is one of the most interesting characters in that he illustrates the strange relationship one can have with ones possessions. Watt and Richardson, the editors, state that the play is about acquisitiveness. That is, the acquiring of veridical possessions is central to the play, and this family. The Pollitts own a plantation home on the multiple sclerosis Delta. Their house is a key figure in the work as much as any of the characters ar in that it encapsulates the familys legacy of secrecy. To write down with, there is t he central staging area of Brick and Maggies bedroom. This room was once divided up by the former owners, two men, a fact that seems to haunt Brick. Williams describes the interior decoration of the room in some detail. He is most occupied with the sympathize with combination of radio-phonograph, TV set and 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 shrine to virtually all the solace and illusions poop which we hide from such things as the characters in the play are faced with . . . (Williams 660). He is quite right. Not only does Brick hide behind the liquor in the cabinet, his truthful crutch, but the furniture does exemplify all the modern conveniences that many p... ...system that he speaks of is more than the lying and liars that outright 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 last found it lacking. nonetheless it is doubtful that this revelation will truly 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, nonetheless relevatory, ever effects so immediate a change in the heart or make up conduct 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 Classical to Contemporary Theater. Ed. Carl H. Klaus, Miriam Gilvert, and Bradford S. Field, Jr., 4th ed. capital of Massachusetts Bedford/St. Martins, 1999.