East of Eden
In the novel, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, Catherine Ames is one of the maincharacters. She is introduced to the reader as a monster and as time goes on, shepossesses both monster like and animal qualities and hurts many people. AsCatherine she gets older and wiser, she gets more evil and displays her monster andanimal like characteristics. She knows she is powerful and indestructible by virtually anybody. She has manipulated and tricked many people in her life causing them togo to the extreme... death, only someone nonhuman could be so controlling overalmost everybody. Catherine "Cathy" shows her evilness and her monster likebehavior in many scenes throughout the book and she brings more character andexcitement to the book. Steinbeck illustrates Cathy as being a monster , "I believethere are monsters born in the world" ( Steinbeck 72) Steinbeck also says, " It is mybelief that Cathy Ames was born with the tendencies, or lack of them, which droveand forced her all of her life," (Steinbeck page 72). Cathy knew how to use thesepowers to her advantage, she got everything that she wanted from using thesepowers. Cathy used this to her advantage also by making people uneasy, but not so
She screamed, a long and shrill animal screech. How someone can think like that isbeyond myself and many others. Ithink the only sensible thing she did in her life time was not killing Adam, her loving spouse, and committing suicide. While she runs the house, she takespictures of all the important male individuals in the town to later send to theirspouses and families. her jaw was set and her head twisted and turned, mangling his handthe way a terrier worries a sack. Cathy's character has no talk about being normalexcept for her looks and which sometimes her look is so innocent that it is evil. As theinvestigators scoped the place, they noticed that the bolts stuck out and there wereno keys left in the locks. Samual Hamilton andand her son Cal Trask. " Cathy, for unknownreasons has animal characteristics. "Her head jerked up andher sharp teeth fastened on his hand across the back and up into the palm near thelittle finger. They could see in her eyes that their was somethingdifferent about her.
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