East of Eden Written by: John Steinbeck Analysis of the character Catherine Ames In the novel, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, Catherine Ames is one of he main characters. She is introduced to the reader as a monster and as time goes on, she discloses both monster and animal like characteristics. As Catherine she gets older and wiser, she gets more evil and shows more of these monster and animal like characteristics. She knows …showed first 75 words of 800 total…

…showed last 75 words of 800 total…what she is going to do next or what she is thinking. She has more characteristics of a monster or of an animal than of a human. Cathy's character does not speak about being normal except for her looks. I think the only sensible thing she did in her life time was not killing Adam, her loving spouse, and committing suicide. She has not a care in the world and her only love is hatred.