In the Bible, God sparks Cain’s jealousy by preferring Abel’s sacrifice of a fine lamb to Cain’s sacrifice of grain. This enrages Cain, and he becomes jealous of his older brother. This leads Cain to kill his brother out of enraged anger. In a parallel in East of Eden, Cyrus Trask sparks his younger son Charles’s jealousy by preferring his older sons’ gift of a puppy to Charles’s gift of a knife. After hearing this, the young Charles proceeds to severely beat his brother out of anger. This is the beginning

In chapter 27, we begin to get a sense of how Cal and Aron behave. The narrator discusses the differences between them: Aron is good-natured and handsome like his father, while Cal is manipulative and vague, like Charles. The similarities that Aron and Cal bear, respectively, to the young Adam and Charles we see early in the novel are striking. As the two children grow in age, Cal becomes more and more jealous of his brother and Cal’s actions ultimately lead to his brother’s death. Cal who feels that his father loves his brother more, proceeds to tell Aron of their mother’s past, and shows him the life that she lives. Aron is devastated when he hears of how his mother has lived, that he proceeds to list himself in the army, hoping to find a way to escape the horrible truth of his family. Aron is ultimately killed in battle, and Cal has achieved his goal.

In conclusion, the biblical story of Cain and Abel is a recurring theme throughout this novel. Each of the characters that we see displays a person

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