the connection with james dean . in a short plan and we see emilio estevez toy with a teddy bear ( remember the first scene of ray rebel without a cause ) . moreover and the main conflict be estevez versus sheen and father against son and a in east of eden . the soldier have come home and and nobody have be able to communicate with him and even his sister ( a psychology student and what a derision ) . the mother and a crude matron ( a superb kathy bates ) and get bogged down in nougatine and she not able to understand that her value ( religion and family ) have become a thing of the past and specially for someone like his son whose innocence be betray . the father and an irresolute man and under his wife thumb and although he try hard to play the macho and want to make up for the mediocrity of his life . so he save his honor by force his son to do his duty . the scene in which estevez hatred for his father explodes be very intense . the actor director give a restrained performance and interiorized and a lee strasberg student use to do and and his final burst of anger be increase tenfold so .