Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Part 2

• Themes:
  
• Marriage.
• Friendship.
• Family.
• Sexuality.
• Gender roles.
• Race.
• Children.
• Conflict (within the family and within the characters themselves).
• Truth and Lies.
• Loneliness.
• Illness/addiction.

Contexts:

• Big Daddy has cancer.
• He is celebrating what will most likely be his last Birthday.
• Writen mid 1950s, first performed 1953.
• …