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LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Wuthering Heights , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. At first, Cathy is despondent about Linton 's departure. As time passes, though she asks about Linton less and less. Meanwhile, Nelly keeps tabs on Linton by questioning the Wuthering Heights housekeeper, and learns that Linton remains weak and whiny and that Heathcliff can't stand him.
Just as Catherine seemed to take on the "masculine" role in contrast to Edgar, Cathy is portrayed as strong while Linton is weak and "feminine. Active Themes. At this point, Nelly interrupts her narrative and rises to go, remarking that the night is growing late.
Lockwood says that he intends to sleep late the next day and wishes to hear the rest of her story now. He urges her to continue in minute detail. Frances gives birth to a baby boy, Hareton, but she dies not long afterwards, the strain of childbirth having aggravated her chronic consumption.
Hindley assigns Nelly the task of raising the baby, as he takes no interest in the child. Catherine continues to spend time with Edgar Linton, and she behaves like a proper lady while with him. However, when she is with Heathcliff, she acts as she always has. One afternoon, when Hindley is out of the house, Heathcliff declares that he will stay home from the fields and spend the day with Catherine.
She tells him ruefully that Edgar and Isabella are planning to visit. When Heathcliff confronts her about the amount of time she spends with Edgar, she retorts that Heathcliff is ignorant and dull.
At that moment, Edgar enters—without Isabella—and Heathcliff storms away. Catherine pinches her and then slaps her, and when Hareton begins to cry, she shakes him. On his way out, however, he catches a last glimpse of Catherine through the window; lured by her beauty, he comes back inside. Nelly now leaves them alone and interrupts them only to tell them that Hindley has arrived home, drunk and in a foul temper.
When she next enters the room, she can tell that Catherine and Edgar have confessed their love for one another. Edgar hurries home to avoid Hindley, and Catherine goes to her chamber. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. See Important Quotations Explained. Nelly is in the midst of hiding Hareton from Hindley when Hindley bolts in and seizes the boy. Stumbling drunkenly, he accidentally drops Hareton over the banister. Heathcliff is there to catch him at the bottom of the stairs.
Later that evening, Catherine seeks out Nelly in the kitchen and confides to her that Edgar has asked her to marry him, and that she has accepted. Unnoticed by the two women, Heathcliff listens to their conversation. Heathcliff hears Catherine tell Nelly that she cannot marry him because Hindley has cast him down so low; to marry him now would be to degrade herself. If you continue, we will assume that you agree to our Cookies Policy.
Learn More. In the novel Wuthering Heights , Catherine has feelings for two men. She has to choose between the two of them.
Although her feelings for Heathcliff are strong, he cannot provide her with the life of the luxury she desires so much. In the end, Cathy decides to marry Edgar, who can elevate her social status.
All the characters get affected by that decision. The story introduces the readers to three characters — Catherine Earnshaw, Edgar Linton, and Heathcliff. Catherine and Heathcliff are childhood friends. With time, they grow close and develop strong feelings for each other. Despite this, Catherine later falls for their neighbor — Edgar. This love triangle sets off the central conflict of the story.
Catherine Earnshaw is from a well-to-do family and is raised in a little village with her siblings. She meets Heathcliff first after her father brings him to their home. Heathcliff is an orphan and has no living family. Earnshaw is an uncaring father who ignores his children. However, he adores the orphan boy and spoils him. It only contributes to the conflict between Heathcliff and the children.
Catherine is the only person in the family who does not despise the boy. The two often wander off together.
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