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.