In a society with few established institutions and rules, personal manner and social custom have to carry the weight of a civilization. What is the nature of liberty-and of constraint? When a society is simple, the people are either barbaric or quite mannered or a dismaying mixture of both. Different kinds of things have been said about both the book and the film East of Eden: the book was the telling of the founding of a community, the changes of places and people in character, look, and purpose and the film, showing the conflict between father and son, was an announcement of a new sensibility-both suggested the possibilities of American freedom. Kazan’s East of Eden is overheated melodrama. The film Elia Kazan made of the last part of the book East of Eden is a classic. East of Eden is the kind of book that makes some readers cringe. Steinbeck’s novel East of Eden is a wonderful book. Expressions of Generational Conflict: Elia Kazan’s film interpretation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, featuring James Deanīy Daniel Garrett Volume 19, Issue 12 / December 2015 12 minutes (2999 words)
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