This was a great book. It is a wonderful opportunity to read for research on this particular area. I thoroughly enjoyed this as many others I interviewed did also. Buy this book...it's a good read!

A great writer cannot turn out a masterpiece (that overloaded term) each time, and no one reading or seeing A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur will mistake it for Williams's best work. Nevertheless, it has a touch of his genius, and enacts in miniature what he does so well in his greatest plays. Several mismatched people living in a boarding house in St. Louis become entangled in each other's lives. Prominent among them is an aging woman now basing her hope for a "real" life on the proposal of a man hardly worth her attention, and who learns she will have to make a life for herself or remain unfulfilled. The message of the play is to appreciate what you have, rather than striving for what you cannot achieve. It's a lesson Blanche DuBois might have heeded. As always, the poetic quality of the author's dialogue and stage directions enhances the play. This nicely printed New Directions "paperbook" is recommended to those who already know the author's best work, and who would like to get a fuller sense of his different moods and subjects. (Creve Coeur is a park in St. Louis, by the way.)

There's about 8 pages of BS in the beginning of this PDF file that has little or nothing to do with Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Then there is the summary of the plot, but there is no analysis of each act. There is good analysis of the themes, symbols, and historical content. But the overall quality of this PDF file leaves much to be desired. The text is highly distorted at large resolutions, and it even changes color at times for inexplicable reasons.

Will someone create a Cliffnote or Sparknote for this play, already?