She was pregnant at the time, and months later, gave birth to a sickly boy named Linton Heathcliff. She raises her son alone. Both she and Linton lived in London for 12 years until Isabella’s health fails. Before she died, she is visited by Edgar for the final time and brings her son back to Yorkshire after her death.

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How do you explain Cathy’s infatuation for Linton when she is so selfish and peevish? Linton is very whiney and always feels sorry for himself. Linton and Catherine are being forced together, but Catherine likes him anyways. They are cousins, and they get along well.

While entering Wuthering Heights, Lockwood notices but does not comment upon the date “1500” and the name “Hareton Earnshaw” above the principal door.

When Hareton leads him inside, Lockwood waits for the “missis” to ask him to be seated, which of course she does not do. Hareton orders him to be seated, and in an attempt to make polite conversation, Lockwood misidentifies a heap of rabbit pelts as pets and misidentifies the woman as Heathcliff’s wife.

Who does Heathcliff envy? Why do most of the servants leave Wuthering Heights after Frances dies? Hindley’s father grew to love Heathcliff more than him.

Nelly even admits at one point in Chapter VIII “I own I did not like her, after her infancy was past; and I vexed he frequently by trying to bring down her arrogance; she never took an aversion to me, though.” (58) Nelly does not try to hide the fact that she doesn’t like her in her depictions of Catherine to Lockwood.

Heathcliff is a character who is tormented by his love for Catherine and by his bitterness over his ill treatment by Hindley. Heathcliff has been treated as a favored son by Mr. After Catherine’s death, his bitterness intensifies, causing him to act vindictively and cruelly to the younger generation.