Evil is always around. It does not matter who you are,what you do or how you feel. It is always present in every family and in every member of every family, much like the trask and the hamilton families in John Steinbeck's East of Eden. Character Cathy Ames who is as Kate (a whore) is known to be the evilest character in the novel. Cathy Ames is a psychotic woman with sexual tendencies, she has the mind of a murder, and is just flat out evil.
Cathy Ames is described as “small-breasted, delicate, blonde and beautiful, with “oil-soaked” skin that gives her a “pearly-light” and a sense of allurement.” Her appearance misleads most of the people she encounters throughout the story, however many characters see through her like a hole in the