East of Eden: Part One

9. Adam's good nature and inability to see through Cathy is a weakness because he doesn't notice her evilness, and seems to be blind by her lies, therefore he will not believe nothing negative about her. Cathy's evilness is taken to the extreme when it is discovered that she murders her parents and though its true Adam's blindness will not allow him to see through it and realize who Cathy really is. Adam wouldn't consider any negative information about Cathy credible because "his" Cathy is to him the definition of pure and good. He is good and generous, no one just takes a beat up woman who is a complete stranger into their house which is admirable from Adam but then again he falls " in love" with her so quick which shows a perspective of his weakness. Cathy turns Adam's life upside down when she enters it and though he did the right thing by helping her out he was "too" trusting or weak. 

East of Eden: Part One

8. Cathy Ames is a strong characters who's actions an decisions take her through the "sinning" path. She lies, hurts others, cares for herself only and murders her love ones (her family-pg.86/87). Cathy condemns herself because she incites others to sin, for example her Latin teacher who committed suicide for her, we can relate this to Eve who incited Adan to bite the apple that caused the disaster of the world. Human sexuality plays a huge role in the characters, Cathy for example uses her sexual appeal to guys as an advantage to obtain everything she wants, ex. her commodities with Edward her "partner" who later beats her to death which can be seen as a punishment for her sins.

East of Eden: Love & Hate

Love & Hate

Love is the sincere affection one has for someone else, its a feeling of safeness which complements one's life. Love is the need to take care for another and expect nothing in return. The perspective of a pure soul who gives unconditional sincerity to something or someone. For example the affection Adam feels for Alice, his step mother which is a pure love do to the kind feelings he had and how he would leave anonymous surprise gifts for her expecting nothing but her happiness. In the other hand we encounter hate that feeling of envy and  resentment. Hate can be interpreted in various ways such as rejection or dislike of something or someone. Charles which at some point is considered the first antagonist strongly envies his brother Adam at the beginning of the novel because he has most of his father attention which he "hates". Though later when Charles suspects of his father to be dishonest and tells Adam, Adam immediately denies it, but  the narrator tells the reader that the real love always suspects, which inclines the reader to believe Adam does not love Cyrus, their father as much as Charles does because it is even revealed that he never really loved his father but instead feared him and that's why his admiration developed with irony and hate. (pg.64)