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A summary of Act II: Part One in Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Summary. Analysis. A group enters, with Big Daddy in the lead, followed by Reverend Tooker and Gooper, who are discussing memorials. Big Daddy interrupts the talk about memorials, asking whether they think someone’s going to die. Reverend Tooker laughs awkwardly, as Mae and Doctor Baugh appear, talking about the children’s immunizations.
Analysis. John quotes from The Books of Bokonon, explaining that a karass “ignores national, institutional, occupational, familial, and class boundaries.”. He recites Bokonon ’s “Fifty-third Calypso,” which explains that all the different people of the world fit together “in the same machine.”. While never losing sight of its ...
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Like many of Williams's works, Cat concerns itself with the elaboration of a certain fantasy of broken manliness, in this case a manliness left crippled by the homosexual desire it must keep in abeyance.
Brick mourns his love for Skipper, a love imagined in almost mythic dimensions. For Brick, it is the only true and good thing in his life. His mourning is made all the more difficult by the desire he cannot avow. As Maggie notes, theirs is a love that dare not speak its name, a love that could not be satisfied or discussed. Thus Daddy, assuming the...
Ultimately the revelation of the desire in his friendship with Skipper cracks Brick's cool. His horror at the thought of being identified with the litany of epithets that he recites (\"Fairies\"), his disgust at the gossipmongers about him, only points to a fear that they might be true.
As Brick pronounces to Big Daddy, mendacity is the system in which men live. Mendacity here refers to the mores that keep what Williams's dubs the \"inadmissible thing\" that is repressed at all costs. The two primary objects of repression in Cat are Brick's homosexual desires and Daddy's imminent death. After the men are forced to confront these s...
T. S. Eliot’s poem ‘Macavity: The Mystery Cat’ is about a mischievous cat, Macavity. This poem elaborates on his evil deeds. He operates from the cover and stays away from the crime scene. According to the narrator of the poem, Macavity is involved in various acts of crime, such as theft, murder, vandalism, and espionage.
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Summary. Halfway between West Egg and New York City sprawls a desolate plain, a gray valley where New York’s ashes are dumped. The men who live here work at shoveling up the ashes. Overhead, two huge, blue, spectacle-rimmed eyes—the last vestige of an advertising gimmick by a long-vanished eye doctor—stare down from an enormous sign.
