In the novel, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, Catherine Ames is introduced to the reader as a monster and as time goes on, she possesses both animal like and monster 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 manipulates and tricks many people in her
life pushing them to go to the last resort... death.
Catherine (Cathy) shows her evilness and her monster like behavior
in many scenes throughout the book. Steinbeck illustrates Cathy as
being a monster in the quote, "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," This shows that 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 with an innocent look that fooled many; she......
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