East of Eden Characters

This Study Guide consists of approximately 73 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of East of Eden.

East of Eden Characters

This Study Guide consists of approximately 73 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of East of Eden.
This section contains 5,379 words
(approx. 14 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the East of Eden Study Guide

Cathy Ames

Cathy Ames is described by the narrator as a monster. She is consistently evil in her thoughts and actions, manipulating others for her own ends without a trace of conscience. Cold and callous, she seems to be without a single decent feeling. Cathy is the only daughter of a respectable family in Massachusetts. As a young girl she is different from the other children; she is a nonconformist and a liar. At the age of ten she gets two boys punished for indulging in sex play with her, which she initiated; at high school she drives her Latin teacher to suicide. At sixteen she murders her parents by burning down the family home. She then becomes a prostitute, but when she is beaten almost to death by Edwards, she crawls to the Trask farm, where Adam and Charles take her in. After Adam falls in love with...

(read more)

This section contains 5,379 words
(approx. 14 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the East of Eden Study Guide
Copyrights
Gale
East of Eden from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.