Oh No She Didn't!!

East of Eden should be changed to Tales of an Evil Woman and How She Ruins Lives. Once Cathy marries Adam and has her twins with him everything goes downhill. She shoots Adam in the shoulder (he almost dies of infection) and ditches the Trask Ranch. Thus leaving behind her children (which she has no affection for)as well as a soon to be depressed husband. Cathy changes her name to Kate and returns to the life of whoring. It is how she stays busy (no pun intended) and continues her manipulative behavior. Kate manages to charm the Madam of the whorehouse. To gain the potential ownership of the house, Kate brings forth her charming, sweet and "daughter-like" side to Faye the Madam. Faye submits herself to Kate's spell quite easily by believing her stories and treating her as her own daughter. In Faye's will, Kate is the receive everything that belongs to Faye.
The text implies that Kate no longer sees the point in Faye's existence on this Earth. After a series of foolish drunken insults toward Faye (alcohol is Kate's only weakness; it reveals the monster inside of her), Kate poses it as a bad dream Faye had. Shortly after Kate poisons her; the other girls in the house see that the cause of death was due to natural causes since Faye had not been feeling well recently.
Finally Kate/Cathy has gotten what she truly wanted: power. She has attempted this when she lived with her parents, when she was involved with the prostitute ring in the east and a life with Adam Trask. Kate is free to be an intelligent business woman. In this process she killed her parents, got attacked, got married, had twins, left them and her husband as well as shooting her husband. Determined in the most evil of cases. It is amazing how far one will go to get what one desires. She is unaware of how emotionally scarred her children will be without the maternal presence in their lives. Adam has not been able to function properly after Kate's departure. The twins are a year old and they still do not have names; they are unacknowledged or loved by their only parent. The closest loving being to the twins is Lee, the Chinese servant. Kate's children will be deprived of a normal childhood and it will affect their futures.