YMMV / Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Depending on how much Ho Yay a director chooses to invoke, Brick can easily become an Armored Closet Gay. The least homoerotic productions turn the Brick/Skipper relationship into nothing more than a Tragic Bromance.
  • Most readings of the play agree that Skipper was a homosexual who desired his best friend Brick. What's less clear is to what extent Brick reciprocated those feelings. Did Brick reject Skipper and not take his phone call because he was ashamed of his own closeted homosexuality, or because he was a heterosexual man who was disgusted by Skipper's homosexuality and implied advances?
  • The ending, and Brick and Maggie's relationship entirely, also varies greatly. Positive interpretations have the final scene as an Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other moment. On the other end of the spectrum, Brick can genuinely hate Maggie and harbor no feelings at all for her. Maggie can range from an innocent, embattled wife to an evil seductress taking advantage of her Addled Addict husband.
  • Big Daddy is sometimes a Fat, Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit.
  • Is Big Daddy a Jerk with a Heart of Gold or just a straight out abusive Jerkass?
• Jerkass Woobie: Brick, Maggie, Big Daddy, and even Gooper can all be interpreted this way.
• Squick: Only briefly touched upon, but when Big Daddy talks about his travels to other countries to Brick, he mentions in Morocco a child prostitute so young she could barely walk tried to open his fly. Ew... He was so grossed out that he left the country instantly.
• The Woobie: Maggie. Hopelessly in love with a man who loathes her, and tormented because of it.

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