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Title: East of Eden is deep reading
Review: East of Eden is a philosophical investigation into the human mental condition, emphasizing greatly the struggle between good and evil. It explores the complexities of such varied themes as depression, lonesomeness, hate (from Cain and Abel), and of course, love. But one should read this novel with a proverbial ¡grain of salt¡. Steinbeck will sometimes replace character development with his own analysis, much as a historian would look upon past events. For example, he begins a paragraph with ¡When I said Cathy was a monster¡.¡ To the reader, this may be an emotional anticlimax to the plot; it gives the tales a feeling of redundancy. Why not let the stories speak for themselves? It may be that Steinbeck is teaching us something with this novel, something important, something life changing C Timshel.
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