WUTHERING HEIGHTS ( CHAPTER TWENTY ONE)

The housekeeper from the Heights updates Nelly on how things are going between Linton and his father – as expected, not good. Linton is sick all of the time and is "selfish and disagreeable".
On her sixteenth birthday, Cathy announces that she would like to spend the day on the moors. Of course, she begins to make her way toward Wuthering Heights, and she and Nelly run into Heathcliff, who invites them back to the house, insisting that Cathy come see Linton.Heathcliff announces his plan to have the cousins (Cathy and Linton) get married, so that he can inherit the Grange when Edgar dies. It's all about property.Rather than keep the visit a secret, Cathy announces it to her father the next day. Edgar tells her the whole dark story: how Heathcliff ran away with Aunt Isabella and desires only revenge.Cathy wants to begin writing letters to Linton. When Nelly refuses to help her, Cathy finds a milk-fetcher to be her delivery boy. She quickly accumulates a mass of letters, which she hides in a drawer. Nelly collects them all, and when she confronts Cathy about her disobedience, finds out that Cathy is in love with Linton. Nelly burns the letters.

QOC :

“ ‘That man I have seen before. Is he your son?’ She pointed to Hareton”

Bronte creates an immense sense of irony , as Cathy thinks Hareton is Heathcliff’s son. Although this comes as no surprise to the reader as  Heathcliff has treated Hareton just as once Hindley treated Heathcliff . Thus it is to be expected that Hareton and Heathcliff are extremely similar to each other.

“That two cousins may fall in love and get married”

Heathcliff’s plot becomes clear: he wants to marry them in order to solidify his claim to Thrushcross Grange , When Cathy goes to Wuthering Heights she begins to go around with Hareton but Heathcliff demands Linton go after them. This shows the beginning of the cycle the reader has grown accostemed to . Like Catherine before her, Cathy is caught between worlds of nature and civililzation. Linton is too sickly to keep up with her but she is too judgemental and class conscious to regard Hareton with anything but contempt.

 

QOC :

“ ‘That man I have seen before. Is he your son?’ She pointed to Hareton”

Bronte creates an immense sense of irony , as Cathy thinks Hareton is Heathcliff’s son. Although this comes as no surprise to the reader as  Heathcliff has treated Hareton just as once Hindley treated Heathcliff . Thus it is to be expected that Hareton and Heathcliff are extremely similar to each other.

“That two cousins may fall in love and get married”

Heathcliff’s plot becomes clear: he wants to marry them in order to solidify his claim to Thrushcross Grange , When Cathy goes to Wuthering Heights she begins to go around with Hareton but Heathcliff demands Linton go after them. This shows the beginning of the cycle the reader has grown accostemed to . Like Catherine before her, Cathy is caught between worlds of nature and civililzation. Linton is too sickly to keep up with her but she is too judgemental and class conscious to regard Hareton with anything but contempt.

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