In five pages this paper examines how the Politt family members are isolated from each other within the context of Tennessee Williams' play. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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There is an old Southern rule as immutable as any of the laws of thermodynamics or Newtons law of gravity. That rule is - no matter what happens,
even if the world should cease spinning on its axis - "genteel" Southern ladies and gentlemen should never be so crude or vulgar as to say so. We can
see the tradition in characters such as Scarlett OHara and Ashley Wilkes, the sister of whom was all but ostracized for speaking plainly about a situation in obvious need of
discussion. Williams "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" adheres well to this tradition. Two of the characters discuss what they perceive to
be wrong with other family members and with each other, but recognizing problems in others is much more easily done than is recognizing problems in self. One of the
tools that several of the plays characters use to keep criticism and others vision at bay is isolation. Isolation plays a key role throughout the play.
Maggie and Brick Maggie and Brick spend much of their free time sniping at each other, occasionally aiming
in the direction of other family members. Outside their own room and their private conversations, however, the subjects they raise can never be alluded to with any sense of
propriety in attendance. Like so many others in todays world, however, Maggie and Brick are not so much "together" as they are tied in some other fashion. They
and other family members are merely alone together. The presence of the other only prevents the relief and allure of solitude. Each