After he finds out she died, Heathcliff demands her to haunt him and drive him insane, and that she won't ever truly leave him. While this may be uncertain, Catherine may have heard Heathcliff's cries of anguish and accepts it by taking any form in his body. Her possession causes him to act restless and makes him rant about her often. Her body surprisingly has stayed the same since she died and didn't show any signs of decay.
He gazes down at her and bribes the sexton to have him buried next to her. Heathcliff originally tried to dig her grave shortly after her death but stops when he hears her sighing in his ear. A gentleman named Mr. Lockwood arrives at the Heights as a tenant. He stays inside Catherine's old room during a snowstorm, which has become a dedicated shrine to her.
Her name was scribbled all over the headboard of the bed and even a couple of diaries written by her describing her relationship with Heathcliff and the conflict between Hindley and Heathcliff. Her ghost may have roamed around the Heights and wanted to come inside. Such as when Lockwood approaches the window to close it in a dream, Catherine's ghostly hand grabs him and she cries " Let me in!
Let me in! She disappears after Lockwood wakes up from the nightmare, and Heathcliff begs for Catherine to come back to him. Catherine is seen by Heathcliff in his visions and presence, and even speaks to her later on. Her spirit continues to haunt him until his mysterious death. After Heathcliff is buried in the same graveyard with Catherine, the two intense lovers are finally reunited in death and some of the villagers report seeing their spirits walking around the moors, just like how much they loved it when they lived.
Catherine is a lively, free-spirited and adventurous woman. She exhibits this behaviour when she is out on the moors with Heathcliff, since it gave her freedom and happiness from their daily lives at home and society.
She was able to be herself when she is outside and enjoys travelling to various different parts of the Yorkshire Moors. She is fearless when wandering on someone else's property, such as when she and Heathcliff went to spy on the Linton's at Thrushcross Grange. Her wild behaviour often ends her up in trouble with her father. She is also stubborn and selfish, since she gets irritated when she wants to be alone or having to make a decision if she loves Heathcliff or not.
Catherine would also lose her temper and lash out to those who are making her irritated, including when she hurt Nelly when she won't leave her alone and shoving Edgar when he was trying to console her. She cannot decide who she is in love with, but she only cares about herself and making the men she loves hurt.
In death, she is restless as a spirit and is wanting to do anything to be let back in the Heights and with Heathcliff. In Lockwood's nightmare, she grabs him and begs to be let back in. Heathcliff often senses her restlessness and understands how much she feels for him to be with her in the afterlife. After nearly ruining her own life by loving another man, she ends up wanting nothing but to be reunited with her true love. Catherine is described as having brown hair and eyes. During her early life at the Heights and her relationship with Heathcliff, she wore plain clothes, and after meeting the Linton's, she wears fashionable dresses.
Heathcliff - The orphaned foundling Catherine grew up with in childhood and who she would deeply love as an adult. She enjoyed exploring the moors with her beloved Heathcliff, but after she was looked after by the Linton's and met their children, Catherine's romance with her soulmate decreases but she ends up being tormented for letting Heathcliff down, even as she tries to beg him for forgiveness.
After she dies, she torments Heathcliff herself as a ghost. Edgar Linton - Catherine's husband, and who she became a wealthy aristocratic like him upon marrying him. She chose to love and marry him over Heathcliff so she could be part of high social status than being degraded. Once Heathcliff comes back into her life, Catherine finds herself being confronted by Edgar who she loves the most; the dark-haired gypsy or her handsome, well-bred husband.
In her last days, she was cared for by Edgar and left the world leaving a daughter behind for Edgar to raise alone. Hindley Earnshaw - Catherine's older brother. Although she hardly had any interaction with her brother, she sees him as a domineering figure towards Heathcliff, and had even recalled some of these incidents in a diary entry that she had kept in one of her journals.
In addition, she may also had to follow Hindley's strict rules once he inherits the Heights. Nelly Dean - Catherine's foster sister and her servant, who also grew up with her alongside with Heathcliff. She can be stubborn with her, especially in one scene where she screamed and pinched at Nelly because she won't leave the room she's in.
But she also seems to be the most loyal and understanding person to Catherine. She told her the whole truth about her marriage proposal to Edgar and her intense love with Heathcliff. Catherine continues to be supported and cared for by Nelly during her marriage and final days.
Isabella Linton - Catherine's sister-in-law. While she and Isabella have a decent relationship after they have first met, Catherine's status and personality is much higher and stronger than hers.
She had failed to try to stop Isabella from falling in love with Heathcliff, who would not be the perfect match for her. Classic Literature Wikia Explore. Wiki Content. Heathcliff Piggy Jack Mr. Explore Wikis Community Central.
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She is shocked to learn that Hindley died deeply in debt, and that Heathcliff, who had lent Hindley large amounts of money to supply his gambling addiction, now owns Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff does not allow Hareton to return to Thrushcross Grange with Nelly, saying that he plans to raise him on his own.
He also intimates that he plans to recover his son Linton at some point in the future. And so, Nelly tells Lockwood, Hareton, who should have lived as the finest gentleman in the area, is reduced to working for his keep at Wuthering Heights. A common, uneducated servant, he remains friendless and without hope. Young Catherine grows up at Thrushcross Grange, and by the time she is thirteen she is a beautiful, intelligent girl, but often strong-willed and temperamental. Her father, mindful of the tormented history of the neighboring manor, does not allow young Catherine off the grounds of Thrushcross Grange, and she grows up without any knowledge of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, or Hareton.
She longs to visit the fairy caves at Penistone Crags, but Edgar refuses her request. He receives word one day, however, that Isabella is dying, and he hurries to London to take charge of young Linton. She travels toward Penistone Crags but stops at Wuthering Heights, where she meets Hareton and takes an instant liking to him.
She and Hareton spend a delightful day playing near the crags. Nelly arrives in pursuit of her charge, and tries to hurry her back to Thrushcross Grange. But Catherine refuses to go. Catherine tries to deny this possibility, saying that her cousin is in London, that her father has gone to retrieve him there. Nelly, however, explains that a person can have more than one cousin. Edgar brings young Linton to the Grange, and Catherine is disappointed to find her cousin a pale, weak, whiny young man.
Not long after he arrives, Joseph appears, saying that Heathcliff is determined to take possession of his son. Edgar promises that he will bring Linton to Wuthering Heights the following day. Nelly receives orders to escort the boy to the Heights in the morning. On the way, she tries to comfort Linton by telling him reassuring lies about his father.
Linton pleads with Nelly not to leave him with such a monster, but Nelly mounts her horse and rides away hurriedly. Additionally, the structure of the novel divides the story into two contrasting halves. The first deals with the generation of characters represented by Catherine, Heathcliff, Hindley, Isabella, and Edgar, and the second deals with their children—young Catherine, Linton, and Hareton.
Many of the same themes and ideas occur in the second half of the novel as in the first half, but they develop quite differently.
In fact, many readers view the second half of the novel, in which Catherine figures only as a memory, as a sort of anticlimax.
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