![]() The East of Eden’s crucial idea of timshel is also uncovered with Lee’s participation. He is not a mere person employed to run a household, he is a rather philosophical man who frequently gives voices to the novel’s themes, this is where his significance to the work is rooted. ![]() Lee is an educated man whose parents emigrated to America from China. Living a happy life with Cathy in California Adam Trask hires this Chinese-American man as a cook and housekeeper. We suppose that the author’s hints on racism are revealed through the character of Lee. We consider the presence of racism in the novel to be a rather controversial one therefore we will focus on it in order to find out its essence and decide whether it is really characteristic for the work under consideration or not. This is one more issue that is brought out in the novel. Still, the same concept can hardly be applied to such a problem of the novel as racism. Though the reader is provided with the author’ personal view on the problems suggested and the author’s position is not imposed on the reader, he or she is unwillingly taking the same position as it is a rather sustained one. ![]() All of them are skillfully depicted by the author and are given his careful consideration. The major problems of the novel are: the perpetual contest between good and evil, the freedom to overcome evil, the pain of paternal rejection, fortunes and inheritances. ![]()
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