ok, hello all! well, i am still debating on what exactly to do for my topic for term paper, and i was wondering a few things. in your guys' opinion, do you think Cathy, the beast, could fit with this, "In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved." -Steinbeck. I can't really think of any time in the book where Cathy wants to be good or loved except maybe at the end when she leaves all she has to Aron. But why would Steinbeck put that in the book, if he didn't truly believe it about all his characters? And omg, if anyone knows where the heck that quote is in the book, please tell me, i cant find it and i dont feel like looking through 725 pages. And i was commenting to tiff and carps how interesting it is that all the "evil" characters' names begin with the letter C - cain, cyrus, charles, cal and cathy. and the "good" characters with the letter A - alice trask, adam, aron, abra. how fun is that!!! oh, and how interesting is it that carps name begins with C! hahaha, jk. but ok, that was just some stuff and hopefully you guys will respond to this bc i need help, and it would just be interesting. hope you guys have a good weekend. bjos, ang.
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Ang....I did some reading on Cathy. It seems like Steinbeck presents her as he does many if not all of his female characters as purely evil....here are a few sites that might help you to develop your thoughts....
“Its greatest flaw is that East of Eden can only create convincing male characters. This was an endemic weakness in Steinbeck's fiction. He was only ever really interested in men. But in his great works, female characters have an imposing archetypal stature: Ma Joad, Rose of Sharon, even the doomed Curley's Wife in Of Mice and Men. In East of Eden, the women are either Cipher Mothers or Whores from Hell. The greatest of all the Whores from Hell, Cathy Trask, is a suitably appalling character, indeed the closest Steinbeck comes to creating a Faulknerian creature of darkness. Though her evil energies set more than half the plot in motion, she loses focus as the book wears on, and succumbs at last to a bluffing blackmailer and an enervating illness. (In the opening chapters, a murderous whoremaster and multiple broken bones don't slow her down a bit)” ( http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/lection/030909.html).
and a few other sites:
http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel/1981/1981ac.html
http://webdiary.com.au/cms/?q=node/1482
and BTW....I am probably evil (C) bc I am a woman!...hehehhe....i guess you (A) are just really in touch with your male side...hauhauhauh
thanks carps!!! i'll take a look at those...hehe. p.s.- touchè
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