The Question and Answer section for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Big Daddy, like Brick, is the sort of man who inspires admiration and adoration without doing much of anything to deserve it. He worked hard for economic success, and now he wants to enjoy it. He is uninterested in his wife and treats her cruelly,...
The setting for the play is in the cotton plantations in the Mississippi Delta in the 1950's. It is very hot which provides the metaphor for the simmering character and racial conflicts near boiling point in the play.
Elizabeth Taylor played Maggie in the film.
