At midnight Catherine gives birth to a daughter, Cathy two months prematurely. Catherine dies two hours later. When Nelly brings Heathcliff the news, he seems somehow to already know. He curses Catherine for the pain she caused then begs her to haunt and torment him for the rest of his life, even if it drives him mad just so they can be together.
Edgar keeps watch over Catherine’s body day and night, while Heathcliff stays out in the garden through the night. Eventually exhaustion forces Edgar to leave Catherine’s side for a few hours, and Nelly allows Heathcliff to see the body.
After Heathcliff leaves, Nelly discovers Heathcliff has replaced lock Of Edgar’s hair that Catherine kept in her locket with his own. Nelly finds Edgar’s lock of hair and twines the two together in the locket.
Hindley does not attend Catherine’s funeral. And Nelly tells Lockwood Edgar is buried next to Catherine.
QOC : “Catherine Earnshaw, may not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you –haunt me then! The murdered to haunt their murders”
Heathcliff’s love for Catherine seems to rise to a different plane from powerful love to something supernatural. First he seems to know already that she has dies, and then he wishes for a life of torment rather than to be separated from her
“Heathcliff had opened the trinket and cast out its contents, replacing them by a black lock of is own. I twisted the two and enclosed them together.”
The combined locks of hair mark the two sides of Catherine’s personality, the natural and the civilized.
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