![]() Besides, the play successfully dramatizes the 'problem' and crisis, rather than solve it, and it would not be necessary to tell the truth when we can perceive the difficulty of telling it.Ĭat on a Hot Tin Roof has all of the earmarks of Williams's unique dramas, involving as it does his emotionally biographical themes of ambivalence in sexual orientation, disaffection, and difficulty in maintaining intimate relationships. He said he would like to rewrite that play. However, the dramatization is successful no solution is found out or suggested, but the problem is well presented.Īfter 25 years, in a TV interview, Williams confessed his homosexuality and also Brick's, frankly and loudly. ![]() ![]() The dramatist could not be frank with the problem, which was also his own personal problem. But it was tragic that the society would stigmatize it and outlaw such people. This common crisis was the crisis of the homosexuals who had come to the phase of half-revealing their secrets of the society. The play is partly autobiographical, but as the dramatists comments on it himself (Act II), the theme of the play is not related to one man's "psychological problem" but to the "true quality of experience in a group of people in the thundercloud of a common crisis". ![]() With a homosexual character as the husband of a particularly sexually attractive and potent wife, the drama reveals several aspects of life and experience of a family in the 1950's in America. ![]()
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