Although Adam Trask’s father cheated his way to wealth-a comment on the “honesty” of business in the Gilded Age- Adam proves scrupulously honest.
Their father Cyrus faked his way to wealth in the aftermath of the Civil War-the first moral ambiguity of Steinbeck’s East of Eden. He moves to the Salinas Valley of California because he simply can’t get along with his brother Charles. Adam Trask is the main character, a veteran and Connecticut farmer. The story spans three generations and an entire continent.
So, hopefully this review will be new to you. But that doesn’t mean that you’ve read it.
The classic is about to reach its sixth decade since publication. There’s little I can write about John Steinbeck’s East of Eden that no one’s written before, I realize.
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