Chapter 17 :
Just a few days after the funeral, Isabella comes to Thurshcross. Grange at a time when she knows Edgar will be asleep in his room. Isabella tells Nelly, who is taking care of the baby Cathy, that she knows Edgar won’t allow her to stay, but that she needs Nelly’s help. Isabella then tells how in a drunken rage Hindely planned to shoot Heathcliff. Later in the story Nelly talks o Isabella moving to live near London where she gave to a sickly boy, whom she named Linton. Heathcliff eventually learned about his son were, but did not go after them. Isabella died when Linton was twelve.
Hindley dies six months after Catherine and Nelly goes to Wuthering Heights to look after the funeral and to bring Hareton back to the Grange. But Nelly is shocked to learn that Hindley died deeply in debt to Heathcliff, who now owns Wuthering Heights. It is revealed that Hareton is now the servent to Heathcliff.
QOC :
“I recovered from my first desire to be killed by him – I’d rather he’d killed himself he has extinguished my love effectually and so I’m at my ease.”
Isabella’s poor treatment at the hands of Heathcliff have clearly unhinged her. Yet she also has the presences of mind to know that Edgar always consciences of propriety, will never forgive her for running off with Heathcliff. She acknowledges that she was wrong for leaving with him , as she realises he never truly loved her and used her , through his brutality to her , she hates him so much she even wishes him death , which is a great comparison to Heathcliff & Catherine ‘s Love.
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