John Steinbeck's epic tale, East of Eden, is portrayed very accurately in Elia

Kazan's film adaptation of the novel. Though the screen adaptation of East of Eden is an

excellent portrayal, one of the most probable reasons for deleting sections of the book

were constraints of time and money. Apparently the director's choices to delete certain

sections of the book obviously did not affect the movie or the book's plot line too greatly.

The director most probably felt that the backgrounds of Adam or Kate were not

necessary since in this movie the main theme circulated around Cal and Aron's fight to win

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