Homosexual Theme in Tennessee William's Cat on a Hot Tin RoofIn his essay "Come Back to the Locker Room Again, Brick Honey!" Mark Royden Winchell addresses several aspects of the homosexual theme in the play Cat On A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee William. Winchell describes the play as subversive because it casts doubt on the innocence of male companionship, the two most tolerant characters are the most openly heterosexual characters, and homosexuality is depicted as a personal rather than a social or political problem, despite the period of this piece. . I think Winchell is right in all of these thoughts, but what I want to know is what Williams' approach was, and that question is never answered. In Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Williams goes out of her way to question whether a very close male friendship can be purely and completely innocent. Winchell discusses this idea throughout his essay, but never gets to the simple fact that literature up to the time of this play might have questioned the innocence of female companionship, though even that was rarely manifest, but, li...