In the 1950s, reeling from the traumas of World War II, Americans turned their energies to building safer, more wholesome lives at home. Encouraged by the birth of modern suburbia, the return to traditional job roles, and the rise of television (and role models like Leave it to Beaver’s perfect housewife, June Cleaver), they focused anew on the importance of nuclear family life. In 1955, Southern playwright Tennessee Williams (already a Pulitzer Prize-winner for his 1948 play, A Streetcar Named Desire) composed the play that he would later call his personal favorite: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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