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.