East of Eden

Date Submitted: 01/31/2004 09:39:18
Category: / Literature / Novels
Length: 7 pages (2053 words)
In the year of 1952, John Steinbeck published the novel that "I have been practicing for all my life" (McCarthy, p.117), East of Eden. He decided to hold nothing back from the reader and scrutinize the very aspect of human nature using the Biblical stories of Adam and Eve, and Cain and Abel as a backdrop. This story of good and evil and man's downfall is centered on the dark and twisted figure of Cathy Ames, …
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