Suddenly Last Summer Sparknotes

Suddenly Last Summer is a play by the 20th century American playwright Tennessee Williams. Scenes III starts with Mrs. Holly and George pleading Catharine to change her story about Sebastian’s death. Mrs. Holly and George fear that they will not receive the money that Sebastian bequeathed to them. Mrs. Venable will contest the will in the court if Catharine does not change her story. Catharine sticks with her story. Later on Mrs. Venable and Dr. Sugar join them as well. Mrs. Venable talks about her relationship with the Hollys who are not her blood relatives but the relatives of her late husband: “I always detested these people, my dead husband’s sister and – her two worthless children” (27). Dr. Sugar decides to inject Catharine with a needle

Venable’s and her relationship with Sebastian. She says that both of them were used as baits to procure him young men. Sebastian was shy and Catharine and Mrs. Venable were not and he was using them to attract young men. Before he died Catharine and Sebastian were vacationing in a town called Cabeza de Lobo where Sebastian was using Catharine on the private beach to attract young homeless boys from a neighboring public beach. In the beginning, Sebastian was tipping them and was content; however, later on he grew irritated by the constant attention the homeless were giving him. They stopped going the beach. On the day that Sebastian died, they were having a late afternoon lunch at a restaurant which was surrounded by a fence for protection from the homeless. The homeless, naked boys approached the fence, and started singing to Sebastian. He told the waiters to get rid of them. Later he got irritated and they left the restaurant. They were followed by the hungry mob of homeless, naked, young boys. They caught up with them and encroached Sebastian. Catharine ran for help but once she brought waiters, police and others Sebastian was already lying unconscious on the street. He was naked and parts of him had been eaten away by the