Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and East of Eden
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East of Eden and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof both deal with the relationships in families. Each of these families tries to hide the fact that they are not fully functional. The main problems in both movies are the relationships between fathers and their sons. Both movies deal with two brothers and their competition to be favored by their fathers. When each family is confronted with a crisis, it is forced to reshape the nature of its relationships. Though it is painful, the surviving relationships are stronger.
In East of Eden, Cal and his brother Aaron compete for love and admiration from Adam, their father. Adam generally favors Aaron, which makes Cal’s struggle to prove himself all the more difficult. Although Aaron is successful in his father’s eyes, Aaron is not content with himself. Cal and Adam are not completely happy with their lives either. East of Eden also involves Cal and Aaron’s curiosity about what truly happened to their mother when they were young. Cal eventually finds his mother and gets a chance to know the other half of what he came from. Relating with his mother helps him since he does not have a very meaningful relationship with his father.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof also deals with the relationship between a father and his two sons. Big Daddy is a controlling father who expects the best from his family. He is a materialistic man who values money and luxuries over altruism. Brick and Goober are his two sons. After a failed football career and a rocky marriage, Brick resorts to alcohol in order to escape from his problems. Goober, however, has a good marriage and is favored by his father. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof mostly consists of Brick’s struggle to clear out the “mendacity,” as he calls it, among his family and...
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