History Characters / CatOnAHotTinRoof

!!!'''Played by:''' Madeleine Sherwood (1958 film), Mary Peach (1976 TV film), Penny Fuller (1984 TV film)

* CorruptHick: He knows that Big Daddy is SecretlyDying and hopes to take advantage of that by unsubtly trying to wheedle more funds using his powerful religious influence.

!!!'''Played by:''' [=Macon McCalman=] (1984 TV film)

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! Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt

! Brick Pollitt

! Harvey "Big Daddy" Pollitt

! Ida "Big Mama" Pollitt

! Gooper

! Mae

! Dr. Baugh

! Reverend Tooker

! Skipper

* ManlyGay

* Fiction500: He has ten million dollars in cash [[note]] Adjusted for inflation and associated interest, this would be more than 100 million dollars in today's money. [[/note]] and "blue chip," or expensive, stock, as well as 28,000 acres [[note]] A USDA study in 2021 determined the average cost of an acre of land was 3380 dollars. If you times that by 28,000, then the net worth of Big Daddy's land holdings come out to 94 million dollars. Big Daddy is living large to say the least. [[/note]] acres of extremely fertile and profitable land. By 1950's Southern standards, he's essentially a king.

* Fiction500: He has ten million dollars in cash and "blue chip," or expensive, stock, as well as 28,000 acres of extremely fertile and profitable land. By 1950's Southern standards, he's essentially a king.

* ChildHater: A variation--he is far more interested in the ''idea'' of having children than actually dealing with them. When Mae repeatedly has her kids perform tricks and sing songs at his birthday party, he's more annoyed than entertained and snaps "Don't we ever get an intermission?"

! "Big Daddy" Pollitt

* FatGirl: She's a stout woman. Big Daddy either playfully teases or outright mocks her for it.

* HeadTurningBeauty: Alludes to being one (nearly by the trope name) in her first-act speeches to Brick- and likely true, given her {{Ms.Fanservice}} status. However, given the play's limited cast involves two married men and her indifferent husband, we don't see this trope in action much.

* TheAlcoholic: Became one after Skipper's death.

* InadequateInheritor

* {{Hunk}}

* DirtyOldMan: Maggie notes that he shamelessly admires her figure.

* NouveauRiche
* ThePatriarch

* SouthernGentleman

* ExtremeDoormat
* FatGirl
* LoveMartyr: For Big Daddy.

** In the very first scene of the play, she [[LingerieScene strips down to a slip.]] She doesn't redress until halfway through Act One.

* UptownGuy: He's rich, Maggie's "as poor as Job's turkey."

* TheUnFavorite: And how.

* JerkassWoobie: He's an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] and borders on a DomesticAbuser, though he wasn't always this way: [[spoiler: [[ItsAllMyFault his guilt over potentially contributing to the suicide of his best friend]]]] sent him into a spiral of addiction and depression.

* DomesticAbuser: Verbally abusive to Big Mama.

* BuryYourGays: Skipper commits suicide after a disastrous, aborted attempt to come out to Brick.

--> '''Big Mama:''' I'm talking in Big Daddy's languge now. I'm his wife, not his widow. I'm still his wife!

* TheGhost: He's dead before the play begins, but his prescence haunts everyone, especially Brick.