Family, Love, and Loneliness. East of Eden is a novel about families—marriage, parenthood, succession, inheritance, and sibling rivalry make up the bulk of the book’s conflict. Underlying all of these conflicts is the repeated suggestion that there is no love without pain, rejection, and loneliness.

I wanted to buy the book because even though it looks like I get along with them and they are very caring towards me yet I do have some inner emotions that it might not be that happy or loving even though there are no signs that my family dislikes me in anyway.

I accidentally bought the Grapes of Wrath instead which has nothing to do with me.