Audrey’s Reviews > East of Eden > Status Update

“Joe,” she asked, “are you really just pure son of a bitch or do you just pretend to be?”

“What do you care?” Joe asked.

“I don’t,” said Thelma. “You son of a bitch.”

This book I swear lol

“For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.’ Don’t you see?” . . .

. . . “‘Thou mayest’! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth . . . he has still the great choice”

It’s very interesting to read the discourse of “thou mayest” online stemming from this book