A Brief Summary of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof In Cat On a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams, the play takes place in the bedroom of Margaret and Brick Pollitt. Margaret is the wife of Brick and they both live on Big Daddy’s southern estate along with Big Daddy’s wife Ida, and their other son Goober, his wife Mae and their five children. Big Daddy has worked hard his whole life, he even worked alongside slaves; he later became an overseer and earned enough money to manage his own plantation. Recently he was told that he has cancer, but then the doctors gave him news that he only had a spastic colon, although that was a lie. On the day of Big Daddy’s sixty-fifth birthday he is excited to share his good news that he will live to see another birthday. Throughout the play the family begins to discover previously unknown secrets as they attempt to resolve the issue of who should receive Big Daddy's estate.
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