Throughout Steinbeck's novel, East of Eden, he captures the idea of ​​Timshel through different characters. Many believe that Timshel is left open-ended, giving the character a choice. Also, Timshel is actually planted in one of them, either they fight evil with Timshel or they give in to the dark side. Throughout Ms. Trask's vivid text, Steinbeck expresses her as a human without Timshel. As he speaks of her savage actions, confessing "to crimes she could not have committed" (Steinbeck 15) and drowning "in a pond so shallow she had to get on her knees" (Steinbeck 15) 15), the reader is able to discover that she is a woman struck by evil. As we learn later in the book, Timshel means thou canst, giving man the decision to choose between good and evil. As shown with her choice to commit suicide, Mrs. Trask is unable to escape the path of evil, mainly because she is not good at Timshel. To express his point of view, Steinbeck structures sentences accordingly and uses a wide choice of interwoven words and tone. . It opens with "Mrs. Trask was a pale, inner woman." (St...