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East Of Eden If I could recommend a work of fiction to read and be contemplated by my fellow classmates, it would be John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. East of Eden parallels Genesis times, with a traditional good versus evil story line. The profound depth of the novel leaves one with knowledge and insight for everyday life. East of Eden is the most stimulating novel I have ever read. It is set in the early twentieth century, a time of hardships and a specific struggle for identity. Steinbeck gives the readers Cathy, the incarnation of evil. He symbolically has Adam as the protagonist of the novel. Cathy fights against the traditional role of women and is determined to be in control, while Adam, the innocent bystander, has eden, novel, east, while, read, life, traditional, story, steinbeck, readers, own, love, evil, cathy, adam, work, women, versus, twentieth, trusting, times, time, symbolically, struggles, struggle, stimulating, steinbeck’s, specific, sons, set, seems, role, revolving, repeat, relive