characters. She is introduced to the reader as a monster and as time goes on, she

possesses both monster like and animal qualities and hurts many people. As

Catherine she gets older and wiser, she gets more evil and displays her monster and

animal like characteristics. She knows she is powerful and indestructible by virtually anybody. She has manipulated and tricked many people in her life causing them to

go to the extreme... death, only someone nonhuman could be so controlling over

almost everybody. Catherine "Cathy" shows her evilness and her monster like

behavior in many scenes throughout the book and she brings more character and

excitement to the book. Steinbeck illustrates Cathy as being a monster , "I believe

there are monsters born in the world" ( Steinbeck 72) Steinbeck also says, " It is my

belief that Cathy Ames was born with the tendencies, or lack of them, which drove

and forced her all of her life," (Steinbeck page 72). Cathy knew how to use these

powers to her advantage, she got everything that she wanted from using these

powers. Cathy used this to her advantage also by making people uneasy, but not so

Enough remained of Mr. and Mrs. Ames to make sure there were two bodies." Cathy

these two people for that fact. They could see in her eyes that their was something

and an animal than a human. Cathy's character has no talk about being normal

drives her insane. Everything has to be evil for her and if it is not you can make sure that she will twist around to become evil.Do you think I want to be human? Look at those pictures! I'd rather be an animal than a human," said Cathy. Cathy admits she would rather be an animal than a human. How someone can think like that is

golden blond hair, hazel eyes, a thin and delicate nose, and a small chin to make her

changes his description from a monster to a vicious animal. "Her head jerked up and

thought of Cathy or Kate to murder her. While she runs the house, she takes

Steinback said Cathy was a monster it seemed to me that it was so. Steinbeck is

except for her looks and which sometimes her look is so innocent that it is evil. I

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Approximate Word count = 947
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)