Homosexual Theme in William's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in TennesseeIn his essay "Back to the Locker Room Ag'in, Brick Honey!" Mark Royden Winchell discusses several aspects of the homosexual theme in Tennessee William Cat's play On A Hot Tin Roof. Winchell describes the play as subversive because it questions 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 time period of this work. . I think Winchell is right in all of these thoughts, but what I want to know is what Williams' approach was, and that is never answered. In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Williams goes out of his 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 point that literature up until the time of this play may have questioned the innocence of female companionship, although this too was rarely overt, but, li...