East of Eden on Netflix boasts an impressive cast to bring this classic novel to life. Netflix has dropped the official trailer for its adaptation of John Steinbeck’s 1952 “masterpiece” East of Eden, which follows the multi-generational saga of the Trask family from the mid-19th to early 20th Century. But this adaptation gives Steinbeck’s book a fresh twist as the story will primarily be told from the perspective of the “notoriously complex” Cathy Ames, played by Oppenheimer star Florence Pugh,