In the novel, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, Catherine Ames is one
of the main characters. She is introduced to the reader as a monster
and as time goes on, she possesses both monster like and animal
qualities. As Catherine she gets older and wiser, she gets more evil
and displays her monster and animal like characteristics. She knows she
is powerful and indestructible. She has manipulated and tricked many
people her life causing them to go to the extreme... death.
Catherine “Cathy” shows her evilness and her monster like behavior
in many scenes throughout the book. Steinbeck illustrates Cathy as
being a monster on pages 95 and 96. “I believe there are monsters born
in the world... It is my belief that Cathy Ames was born with the
tendencies, or lack of them, which drove and forced her all of her
life,” said Steinbeck. Cathy used this to her advantage by making
people uneasy, but not so uneasy that they would not run away from her.
Cathy was born......
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