The title of the book is also a reference to the story of Cain and Abel. autobiographical information – for example, the Hamilton family was inspired by Steinbeck’s maternal family.the biblical story of Cain and Abel – a story of the struggle for acceptance and competition for parental love.
The book surprises the American culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and its narrative has two foundational sources of inspiration: Narrated by John Steinbeck himself, who is a character in his own book, the action takes place mostly in Salinas Valley (California, USA), Steinbeck’s birthplace. The book is a multi-generation epic, telling the stories of two families: the Hamiltons and the Trasks. * defined by Oxford Dictionary as “ a work of art, music, or literature that is regarded as the most important or best work that an artist, composer, or writer has produced ” East of Eden in a nutshell Considered by Steinbeck his magnum opus*, East of Eden is a book about family and brotherhood, about good and evil, about jealousy and pride, and about the way history repeats itself. East of Eden is the second book written by the Nobel and Pulitzer winner John Steinbeck that I read, after previously reading the short story The Pearl.
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