A lil' info on Cathy =)

Since I got inspired by El Sniper's post... Here's a lil' sumthin' sumthin' for all, about Cathy, according to Steinbeck...

"When I said Cathy was a monster it seemed to me that it was so. Now I have bent close with a glass over the small print of her and reread her footnotes, and I wonder if it was true. The trouble is that since we cannot know what she wanted, we will never know whether or not she got it. If rather than running toward something, she ran away from something, we can't know whether she escaped. Who knows but that she tried to tell someone or everyone what she was like and could not, for lack of common language. Her life may have been her language, formal, developed, indecipherable. It is easy to say she was bad, but there is little meaning unless we know why."

And adding on to what Tim said about the regret/pain she might feel when she thinks of Aron... she did eventually kill herself... And adding on to what Steinbeck said up there, we mustn't forget the part of the book where Cathy mentions herself to be Alice's (from Alice in Wonderland) friend.

As you can all see, Steinbeck speaks of Cathy como se ela fosse a true person, because he himself doesn't seem to able to decipher her completely either... which makes Cathy's persona a truly significant symbol of the book. David Wyatt says that...

"Here is a woman who rapes herself, incinerates her parents, beds down with her brother-in-law, shoots her husband, and abandons her children. Eve and Tamar and Delilah and Jezebel are rolled into one. She is realized through her actions rather than her motivations."

Enjoy!


Bjosss!

Tiffany<33*

P.s.: Those who'd like to use that quotes up there, or at least parts of them, should look for me and I'll give you the exact reference so you can "works-cite" it.