Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. .TENNESSEE WILLIAMS. .Here is the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of the troubles that beset a wealthy Southern family—and how their lives are stripped of pretense in a shattering moment of revelation. .When his best friend dies, the family's son, Brick, is racked with guilt, a torture that only drink can numb. Brick's wife, Maggie, craves her husband's few attentions as much as she hates his alcoholism. Full of the vigor of life, Brick's father, Big Daddy, lives every day as