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East of Eden

George Hamilton

The first-born son of Samuel and Liza, he does not figure prominently in the novel. "George was a tall handsome boy, gentle and sweet, who had from the first a kind of courtliness. Even as a little boy he was polite and what they used to call 'no trouble.' … George was a sinless boy who grew up to be a sinless man."