The Fall of Eve
The Bible tells us that it was Eve that ate the fruit, and she condemned mankind to exile from the Garden of Eden.This can be seen in the title of East of Eden – Adam’s land in Salinas is an Eden when he buys it with Cathy and it is fertile and ready to be planted. Yet when Kate leaves him, he lets it sit empty and unused and it is no longer a paradise. Cathy is Eve, and she has locked him out of his own Eden. It’s interesting to compare Eve, or the idea of her, to the three main women in this novel.
Abra is an example of a perfect lady who exists merely to comfort Aron and, later in the book, lead Cal in the right direction. She does complain that Aron imagines her as perfect, but she never does anything in the book to prove him wrong and that’s where the problem is. Abra can be compared to Eve before the snake and the fruit and the Fall. Abra is Eve as a young lady – she is still a girl, and she is seen as sweet and virginal. She says that she is “impure” and that Aron sees her as something that she is not, but maybe he only sees Eden, and …show more content…
She is such good woman, and yet all she does over the course of the book is hold her family together. She is like Eve after her story; she is no longer important and neither is Liza. She raised her children, like Eve raised Cain and Abel, and then the story wasn’t about her anymore and there was no need for her to be a developed character. Liza doesn’t even seem to have a personality – especially when compared to Samuel, who seems to have enough spunk for the both of them. Another mother character in the book is Adam’s mother, Mrs. Trask. Both Liza and Mrs. Trask are described similarly. For Liza, it is said that:
She had no sense of humor and only occasionally a blade of cutting wit. She frightened her grandchildren because she had no weakness. She suffered bravely and uncomplainingly through life, convinced that that was the way her God wanted everyone to live (11 -
The Bible tells us that it was Eve that ate the fruit, and she condemned mankind to exile from the Garden of Eden.This can be seen in the title of East of Eden – Adam’s land in Salinas is an Eden when he buys it with Cathy and it is fertile and ready to be planted. Yet when Kate leaves him, he lets it sit empty and unused and it is no longer a paradise. Cathy is Eve, and she has locked him out of his own Eden. It’s interesting to compare Eve, or the idea of her, to the three main women in this novel.
Abra is an example of a perfect lady who exists merely to comfort Aron and, later in the book, lead Cal in the right direction. She does complain that Aron imagines her as perfect, but she never does anything in the book to prove him wrong and that’s where the problem is. Abra can be compared to Eve before the snake and the fruit and the Fall. Abra is Eve as a young lady – she is still a girl, and she is seen as sweet and virginal. She says that she is “impure” and that Aron sees her as something that she is not, but maybe he only sees Eden, and …show more content…
She is such good woman, and yet all she does over the course of the book is hold her family together. She is like Eve after her story; she is no longer important and neither is Liza. She raised her children, like Eve raised Cain and Abel, and then the story wasn’t about her anymore and there was no need for her to be a developed character. Liza doesn’t even seem to have a personality – especially when compared to Samuel, who seems to have enough spunk for the both of them. Another mother character in the book is Adam’s mother, Mrs. Trask. Both Liza and Mrs. Trask are described similarly. For Liza, it is said that:
She had no sense of humor and only occasionally a blade of cutting wit. She frightened her grandchildren because she had no weakness. She suffered bravely and uncomplainingly through life, convinced that that was the way her God wanted everyone to live (11 -