Super Short Summary

In Act I of The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams, three small children discuss the weather outside a cottage on the Louisiana Gulf Coast as Serafina, a striking Sicilian woman, sets the table for her daughter, Rosa, and husband, Rosario, who is presumably smuggling drugs for the mafia. As night falls and Rosario hasn't returned, their neighbor Assunta visits. Later, the Strega's goat interrupts the conversation, and Estelle, a local card dealer in love with a wild man, commissions Serafina to make a shirt. Meanwhile, Father De Leo and mourners arrive to inform Serafina that her husband has died, causing her to collapse in despair and miscarry. Estelle's appearance at the wake incites conflict, leading to Serafina's further emotional breakdown and the revelation of Rosario’s disfigurement from a drug-related accident.