What happens, though, is Heathcliff assuming control of the property because he owns the mortgage. This chapter marks the end of the first generation and the first half of Wuthering Heights. The second half of the novel in many ways mirrors the first, with Heathcliff longing for revenge, and willing to destroy anyone who is in his way. Previous Chapter Next Chapter Removing book from your Reading List will also remove any bookmarked pages associated with this title.
Are you sure you want to remove bookConfirmation and any corresponding bookmarks? My Preferences My Reading List. She brings misery to both of the men who love her. Well-bred but rather spoiled as a boy, Edgar Linton grows into a tender, constant, but cowardly man. A somewhat vain and presumptuous gentleman, he deals very clumsily with the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights.
As a narrator, his vanity and unfamiliarity with the story occasionally lead him to misunderstand events. A sensible, intelligent, and compassionate woman, she grew up essentially alongside Hindley and Catherine Earnshaw and is deeply involved in the story she tells. She has strong feelings for the characters in her story, and these feelings complicate her narration.
Read an in-depth analysis of Nelly Dean. She sees Heathcliff as a romantic figure, like a character in a novel. Ultimately, she ruins her life by falling in love with him.
He never returns her feelings and treats her as a mere tool in his quest for revenge on the Linton family. Read an in-depth analysis of Isabella Linton. The mother and the daughter share not only a name, but also a tendency toward headstrong behavior, impetuousness, and occasional arrogance. Thus Heathcliff uses Hareton to seek revenge on Hindley. Illiterate and quick-tempered, Hareton is easily humiliated, but shows a good heart and a deep desire to improve himself.
Nelly hears someone arriving and believes it to be Mr. Green, but it is Catherine. Thus Edgar sees his daughter once more before he dies, believing that his daughter is happily married to Linton, and knowing nothing about her desperate circumstances. Green arrives, and dismisses all of the servants except Nelly. See Important Quotations Explained. Heathcliff appears at Thrushcross Grange shortly after the funeral in order to take young Catherine to her new home.
He tells her that he has punished Linton for having helped her escape, and says that she will have to work for her keep at Wuthering Heights. Thus no matter how miserable Heathcliff makes the young couple, Catherine says, they shall have the revenge of knowing that his cruelty arises from his greater misery. But Heathcliff interrupts Nelly to tell her his astonishing deed of the day before. Heathcliff asserts that Catherine will not crumble to dust until he joins her in the ground, at which point they will share the transformation together.
He says that he forced the sexton to remove one whole side of her coffin—the side not facing Edgar—and that when he dies, he will require in his will that the corresponding side of his coffin be removed, so that he and Catherine might mingle in the earth.
He explains that he has felt her presence without being able to reach her. As they leave, Catherine asks Nelly to visit her soon, but Heathcliff tells Nelly that she must never call at Wuthering Heights, noting that if he wishes to see her he will come to Thrushcross Grange. Nelly has not seen Catherine since she left, and her only source of information about her is Zillah. Zillah says that Heathcliff refused to allow anyone at Wuthering Heights to be kind or helpful to Catherine after her arrival, and that Catherine tended to Linton by herself until the day he died.
His only wish is to make them suffer. After years of emotional and physical abuse, Isabella dies, leaving her son Linton alone. When his violent and senseless father finds him, he sees his son as a perfect instrument for his evil schemes.
Heathcliff despises Linton partly because the boy was named after his bitter enemy. The union would allow Heathcliff to take away the ownership of Thrushcross Grange from the Lintons. As if that is not enough, Heathcliff knows that his son is about to die. So he manipulates Cathy into marrying Linton as soon as possible. This act of revenge on Edgar is followed by the death of Linton at the age of Over the course of the story, it becomes evident that the only person whom Edgar respects and loves is Catherine.
At the end of the story, Heathcliff surrenders to his mental illness. The couple reappears in Wuthering Heights as the ghosts inhabiting the local moors.
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