pleasure in using people: “I could make them do whatever I wanted...when I was half-grown I made a man kill himself." She then shows Adam pictures of multiple public figures, including a Senator and a priest, who visit the whorehouse, and denounces the entire human race as a pack of hypocrites; she tells Adam that she'd "rather be a dog than a human." Cathy attempts to seduce Adam, but he resists her temptations; enraged, she has her bouncers beat him up and throw him out. Later on, Adam returns to give Kate $50,000 left to her by Charles, who has recently died. She is confused as to why Adam would show her any kindness, and refuses to believe in the sincerity of his actions. Adam finally sees Kate for what she is, and pities her, telling her: Part 4 Years later, her son Cal visits her. Cal's goodness makes Kate uncomfortable, especially when he states his love for his father, Adam: “a curious spasm shook [Kate] — an aching twist tore in her chest.” They have a brief conversation, in which Kate spitefully tells her son that they are just alike. Cal leaves, telling Kate that she is simply afraid. Soon afterward, the truth of Faye's murder starts to surface and Kate fears being found out. She covers up the truth by framing her employees Joe and Ethel, the only people who know what really happened. At this point, she loses the will to live, especially when she is visited by her second son Aron, who is disgusted by her. Literary critic Sarah Aguiar notes that this incident causes Kate to feel remorse for the first time. She signs over all her possessions to Aron, not Cal. She then commits suicide by taking a lethal dose of morphine. Archetypes The Devil One of the main characteristics of East of Eden is the prevalent allegory with the Bible and the battle between good and evil. In a letter to family friend Allen Ludden, Steinbeck states that “Kate is a total representative of Satan”. As noted by John Timmerman, Steinbeck demonstrates the devil allegory through repeated snake-like imagery used to describe Cathy. In one instance in the novel, Samuel Hamilton observes that “when [Cathy] swallowed, her tongue flicked around her lips...the eyes were flat and the mouth with its small up-curve at the corners was carven”, giving a serpentine air to Cathy's