East Of Eden Literary Analysis

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"East of Eden deals with the inexplicability of the emotion we call love" (Wyatt xxii). John Steinbeck’s East of Eden explores love’s inexplicability and attempts to explain the pernicious effects of love through the characters’ relationships. Proving very complicated, love takes many forms, from a simple coquetry to deep romance.. East of Eden explores three main types of love; parental love, sibling love, and romantic love. Romantic love, typically one-sided in the novel, has negative effects on the characters who fall for one another. All the men who adore Cathy, along with Aron’s and Abra’s relationship, have love that revolves around idealization and manipulation. Parental love, or the lack of it, causes sibling rivalry, which spurs jealousy

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