All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
Cathy. As much as I want to despise all she is, I have a dark yearning to open her skull and spend time in her twisted mind. I am awed that Steinbeck created such a delightfully dark character. Charles, mind you, can also be seen as a monster, but he seems to struggle with his feelings a little too much. Cathy is cold and void of emotions or anything resembling humanity.
Perhaps I feel drawn to her character because I have ones that are similar or maybe she acts out what I think in the darkest depths of my mind. Scary thought. But unlike Cathy, I have yet to be marked. Maybe that means I am heading in the right direction: hope.
Cathy definitely makes me nervous for other characters. Figuring out how her mind works would definitely be interesting. But I don't think she has a soul, to be so detatched from everything the way she is. I think so many characters pick up on that too, except Adam. He's so blinded by her...poor fool.
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