East of Eden

It's funny that this book is a biblical allegory, because its moral philosophy is just as outdated as the Bible's. Maybe now I understand why everyone hated that they gave Steinbeck the Nobel Prize. Steinbeck thought in 1952 that the world was morally decaying, and he was right, and he was right about the role that capitalism and industrialization played in it, but he did not have to write something so condescending, simplistic, and yes, misogynistic. Humanity didn't need biblical allegories in 1952 written by CIA assets who supported the war in Vietnam, and we don't need them now. It's ridiculous to believe in generational curses and original sin, it's ridiculous to write simplistic metaphors and exaggerations of good and evil based on the Bible.