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*Warning: Spoilers ahead for East of Eden*<\/em><\/p>\n

Cathy and Charles have one of the most intriguing relationships in Netflix\u2019s East of Eden<\/a>. They seem to understand each other better than almost anyone else does – as he puts it, \u201cKind recognises kind\u201d – and yet also, at times, outright despise one another.<\/p>\n

Charles (Mike Faist) is Adam Trask\u2019s (Christopher Abbott) brother, and from the moment Cathy (Florence Pugh<\/a>) enters their lives, he sees something in her that Adam doesn\u2019t. For Adam, it\u2019s love at first sight, but Charles is immediately suspicious of the stories she tells about her past, recognising a darkness that perhaps reminds him of himself.<\/p>\n

Their relationship becomes even more complicated when Cathy not-so-accidentally drugs Adam and pursues Charles. They end up sleeping together, shortly before she and Adam leave for California.<\/p>\n

Cathy goes on to give birth to their twin sons, Cal (Joseph Zada) and Aron (Joe Anders)<\/a>, before shooting her husband (he doesn\u2019t die) and abandoning the family. Charles, meanwhile, remains behind on the Trask farm.<\/p>\n

The brothers never see each other again, and years later Adam receives a letter informing him that Charles has died after a two-week illness caused by a problem with his lungs.<\/p>\n

\"Charles,
Credit: Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By this point, Cathy has reinvented herself as Kate and eventually takes control of a brothel, while Adam raises their sons with Lee (Hoon Lee), believing she is gone for good. But Charles unexpectedly returns to the story years after his death – or, at least, Cathy\u2019s version of him does.<\/p>\n

As her life<\/a> and her mental state begin to unravel, she repeatedly sees and speaks to Charles as though he\u2019s right there beside her. They have ongoing conversations, with his apparition forcing her to confront things she\u2019d rather avoid.<\/p>\n

So, what\u2019s going on here? Is she being haunted by Charles? Is it a result of her ongoing morphine use and mental deterioration? Well, Florence Pugh, Mike Faist and showrunner Zoe Kazan have explained what\u2019s actually happening, and it turns out it\u2019s derived from a tiny detail in John Steinbeck\u2019s original East of Eden novel.<\/p>\n

Why does Cathy see Charles even after he\u2019s dead?<\/h2>\n

There are essentially two reasons behind Charles\u2019 return. For Kazan, bringing him back was a way to give viewers access to Cathy\u2019s inner life without having to invent a new character that goes against how isolated she\u2019s become at this point in her life.<\/p>\n

\"Charles
Credit: Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Pugh, it\u2019s Cathy coming to terms with her life and the decisions she\u2019s made, perhaps realising that Charles might have been her one true love.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting to see this part of the book being expanded on, given it\u2019s such a small detail in the source material. In Steinbeck\u2019s East of Eden<\/a>, shortly after Ethel\u2019s visit, Cathy claims to not be disturbed by it. But she later has a flash memory of Faye, the woman she murdered to obtain the brothel.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow was the dark face of Charles involved in the thought? And Sam Hamilton\u2019s puzzled and merry eyes? And why did she get a shiver of fear from the flashing thought? She gave it up and went back to her work, but the face of Charles was behind her, looking over her shoulder,\u201d Steinbeck writes.<\/p>\n

Pugh, Faist and Kazan spoke to TV Insider<\/a> about why this brief moment was turned into such a significant part of Cathy\u2019s story in the finale of the Netflix<\/a> adaptation. \u201cI think the moment she meets her children, and they don\u2019t want her, it breaks her in a way that is irreparable,\u201d Pugh said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think she comes back from that. And the way that she is processing her life and thinking about the decisions that she made is obviously making her feel very sick and having Charles in her mind constantly and talking to her\u2026<\/p>\n

\"Cathy
Credit: Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI believed in those moments when we were shooting them that she is coming to terms with the fact that he probably could have been her one true love. Whether that is the case or not, that was definitely a way of me accessing that relationship, and her kind of romanticising what could have been, or even just the short while that they did have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Faist added, \u201cShe\u2019s having these reflections after having lived the life that she has led, and she\u2019s bringing him up as this kind of almost Cheshire Cat figure in her Alice in Wonderland story.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think it\u2019s very natural because her character makes the choice to marry Adam and move out west, and she\u2019s lived with these choices that she\u2019s made. And the person that she\u2019s talking to in the end is Charles, the person that she actually left behind.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt kind of just goes back to that thing that Charles ultimately says: kind recognising kind. I think these are two people that really see each other. They see this thing that exists within each other, and they have a very powerful connection.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Kazan, it was also a functional decision, as she told the outlet that she needed to access Cathy\u2019s \u201cinner life\u201d and realised Charles\u2019 presence would be a way to do that.<\/p>\n

\"Charles
Credit: Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cCathy is an incredibly lonely person, and her self-isolation is, I think, central to her fate and to her character. I think that it is an extension of her viewpoint of the world, which is that the world is full of evil and full of stupid and evil people,\u201d Kazan explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI, at the same time, really needed access to her inner life, and so I couldn\u2019t give her a friend to talk to. I had been playing with this direct address from the very start of the series, like her voice-over. She\u2019s speaking directly to the audience, and I always thought of that as her speaking to herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I kind of wanted to do a little sleight of hand where Charles stands in for herself, and I think it thematically doubles back on this idea of kind recognises kind, and her idea that maybe – and maybe she says it\u2019s just for effect, or maybe not – that she maybe could have loved Charles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found it very useful, and also the way that she describes having an imaginary friend in Alice, like her conception of Alice in Wonderland. I thought, oh, there\u2019s quite a lot of textual support for this choice, and then also we just wanted to get lovely Mike back on screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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