"My little mistress behaved like an angel in coming to wait on me, and cheer my solitude; the confinement brought me exceedingly low... The moment Catherine left Mr. Linton's room she appeared at my bedside... I said her days were divided between us; but the master retired early, and I generally needed nothing after six o'clock, thus the evening was her own..."
I feel this statement foreshadows that since Cahterine is not usually described as an "angel" that she was probably up to no good on those evenings without supervision. Catherine has already been characterized as a rebellious girl who has a strong mind and does what she thinks is right. Within the next chapter we learn that just as the reader would suspect, she was sneaking off to Wuthering Heights.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Wuthering Heights 5
I feel that the relationship between Cathy Jr. and Linton is supposed to represent a parallel of Catherine and Heathcliff. I feel that Cathy's and Linton's purposes in the book are to live out the life that Catherine and Heathcliff originally wanted but couldn't have. An example from the text that supports this is when Heathcliff says, "My design is as honest as possible. I'll inform you of its whole scope," said he. "That the two cousins may fall in love, and get married..."
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