This is My Reading Response on Suddenly, Last Summer this play was written by Tennessee Williams. This Play is a very interesting read and grips you with its tale of a woman by the name of Catherine Holly who is a part is a wealthy New Orleans family. Who believe she has gone insane after the death of her cousin Sebastian in Europe under mysterious circumstances. Sebastian's mother Violet Venable doesn't buy it and believes the worse. Violet also does not believe that her son was homosexual and the story of her sons death and threats Catherine Holly with Lobotomy.
To me this was kinda extreme but a mothers feelings to her son is understandable but its kinda crazy to go that far. After that they give Catherine a "Truth Serum" which sounds kinda off to me but its something that i assume was believed in back then. Catherine then start retelling the entire tale of what happened to her cousin while aboard. Sebastian using her looks to attract men and his fate being killed and being eaten by cannibals while seeking sexual favors from the people there. In which the horrified family memebers look on while Catherine just weeps and Violet just stares on.
this still image is of the 1959 version of the play with Elizabeth taylor playing Catherine Holly under the effects of the "truth serum". In the film they have a sequence where they have a flash back to show what had happened to Sebastian. During the sequence she explains everything while the flash back goes on and it become very strange with effects showing a angel of death or skeletons. while Catherine herself doesn't see it, it shows the effects of how death just follows and become very real that death is comming for Sebastian while he was running away from the locals chasing his him intruments.
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