An Analysis of Brick in Cat on the Hot Tin Roof  

作　　者：董妍[1] 

机构地区：[1]内蒙古大学外国语学院

出　　处：《海外英语》2015年第8期147-147,150,共2页Overseas English

摘　　要：Tennessee Williams is a prominent American dramatist and Poet Laureate after Eugene O’Neil.Cat on the Hot Tin Roof is praised as the pinnacle of his plays,awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Drama Critics Award in 1955.With the background of southern American family,the play consists of light and shade clues:the former centers on brothers’fighting for property;the latter focuses on hero Brick’s homosexual problem.The analysis of the convert of Brick’s role and thought aims at comprehending to a deep degree how Williams,a homosexual,exposes hideous humanity and hypocrisy society more thoroughly as well as shows his profound thinking of life value.Tennessee Williams is a prominent American dramatist and Poet Laureate after Eugene O'Neil. Cat on the Hot Tin Roof is praised as the pinnacle of his plays,awarded Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Drama Critics Award in 1955. With the background ofsouthern American family, the play consists of light and shade clues: the former centers on brothers' fighting for property; the latterfocuses on hero Brick's homosexual problem. The analysis of the convert of Brick's role and thought aims at comprehending to adeep degree how Williams, a homosexual, exposes hideous humanity and hypocrisy society more thoroughly as well as shows hisprofound thinking of life value.

关 键 词：CAT on the HOT TIN ROOF Brick’s CONVERT hideous humanity HYPOCRISY society life value 

分 类 号：I712.073[文学—其他各国文学]