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Final Post for the Semester

This week I read further on in my book. Thought it s the last week of blogs for this quarter I have not quite finished yet. This week I found out that Catherine had had a bay shortly before she died. This came as a great shock to me because I knew nothing of it until the baby was being swaddled. I was uncomfortable by this revelation because it seemed awkward and out of place. I don’t understand how a woman of such fragility as she was could have had a baby especially since I read nothing of an excruciating childbirth. Furthermore, I just can’t get over the fact that I missed all the signs of her being pregnant in the previous chapters of the book, which I sifted through to find the birth of a baby. This discovery consumed my mind during this reading and I thought little of her growing up. However, the daughter of Edgar, christened Catherine after her mother, grew up and upon the death of her aunt meet her cousin, Linton as he is commonly referred too. Weirdly enough they seem to fall in love after a few brief meetings. He is also the son of Heathcliff, but a complete opposite in that he is extremely milquetoast in all his actions and a big weather wimp. There is a correspondence between the new Catherine and Linton which I have a hunch is really from Heathcliff and its kind of nasty and perverse but I thin that he is falling in love with Catherine a second time! I will have this book finished by the end of the week.

9th Post

This week was full of twists and turns! I was shocked and surprised at what I had read! This is a spoiler but I must write about it. I just read about Heathcliff running off with Isabella last week and getting married. Well now, just days after her joyous marriage Isabella finds herself finding Heathcliff to be completely repulsive. She arrives to his home, Wuthering Heights and is disgusted by all its’ dirtiness. She realizes that her brother will have none of her trouble and she writes a lengthy note to the current narrator, Nelly Dean. She asks Nelly to come and help her get settled in the new home and clean it up. When Nelly arrives, she is approached by Heathcliff who demands to talk to her. He gives her a letter that is to be given to Catherine. It requests his permission to see her again. Nelly struggles to decide what to do but figures if Edgar is absent there would be no harm in Heathcliff coming if Catherine will agree. Nelly holds on to the letter for a few days and when she shows it to her Catherine agrees but Heathcliff is already there in the garden. Edgar is off at church at this time and Heathcliff and Catherine kiss passionately, there was more passion and kissing than I have read in this whole in just this scene. I found it out of character for both because their relationship was so different from a sensual one and the kissing seemed odd. The most thrilling part of this whole reading though was when Edgar was coming home and Heathcliff wouldn’t leave Catherine’s side. Catherine faints never to be the same again and Heathcliff storms out and waits for news from Nelly in the forest. That night Catherine died! Heathcliff swears that Catherine should not rest as long as he is living and that she shall haunt him. Could this be the explanation for the ghost like figure in the very beginning? I will have to read more.

8th Post

To continue from where I left off last the lives of all the characters have changed dramatically. Isabella, Catherine’s sister-in-law developed a crush on Heathcliff. This bothered Catherine and one night Heathcliff and Isabella ran off and married each other. Isabella soon realized her mistake in marrying such a terrible man and begged to come home. Edgar disowned her because he hated Heathcliff. But what I want to focus on this post is whom we are supposed to be rooting for to win Catherine over, Heathcliff or Edgar? I have thought about it a lot and I can’t make a real conclusion. Emily Bronte, the author, has made it difficult to decide. I guess that it could represent the difficulty that Catherine had in choosing which man to be with. Of course she wanted both but as readers we want one to triumph over the other and it really has me in a pickle. Heathcliff is a cruel and evil man, who just likes to torment others. I don’t really see myself as rooting for him because he has such an awful personality. I understand that he and Catherine have a deep and passionate relationship but I don’t end up wanting him to be with her in the end. Edgar on the other hand is a kind and caring person. He is always trying to please his lady. I put my support behind him because he is also passionate and I hate to see the nice guy finish last. Maybe if I read more I can find reason to change my favorite from Edgar to Heathcliff as I think Emily Bronte intended the readers to root for.

7th Post

For this post I continued my reading and much happened in this section. The book never fails to have plot development and that’s one good thing about the book. Unfortunately the plot development isn’t always interesting to read about and often times I find myself not really caring. As for what actually happened in this section of the book I will now tell, after leaving when Catherine says that she wouldn’t marry him but Edgar, Heathcliff runs away. Heathcliff returns in this section and about seven years have passed since he left. According to the narrator, who is the maid Mrs. Dean, those were the most tranquil and happiest times at the house. The Lintons, the family of Catherine her husband Edgar and sister-in-law Isabella don’t live at Wuthering Heights but in a nearby town home called Thrushcross Grange. Upon his return the house of Thrushcross Grange is thrown into calamity. The temper of Catherine grows larger and the misgivings about Heathcliff’s to the home by Edgar get to be quite a burden on his shoulders. In general, Edgar is always looking to please Catherine and keep her in a good mood. He is also very mild mannered and not quick to strike up a quarrel. When Heathcliff comes into the house to see Catherine for the first time in a long time Edgar walks in to see them and his temper is inflamed and he threatens to kill Heathcliff. Heathcliff waves it off as a taunt and insults Edgar who leaves to return with men to help him and a gun.

Sixth Post

I have continues plugging along in my book this week. I can’t say that it was all that exciting but it really wasn’t. I would have to say that the dialogue is the best part of the book thus far. It is very different than regular dialogue in the sense that Emily Bronte, the author, doesn’t us quotation marks. I have thought long and hard about and I have come up with some possible reasons for this. The first being that maybe at the time that the book was written there were no such things as quotation marks or that maybe they were used for a different reason. However, I am not trying to bash this masterpiece I am simply discussing her style. I also had a bit of a change in heart about the current narrator of the story. Her name is Ellen or Nelly Dean. She is the lovable old maid that has the gift of gab. Until this week I had seen her as a fare woman but after she gave a very slanted talk about Cathy I began to have a bit of a distaste of her. She acted very childish when she recounted a tale of “putting” Cathy in her place. It really shocked me because she seemed to be such a level headed and fair woman. She especially seemed like she would be a grown woman and act as such. More importantly I found out in this section that Cathy decides to marry Edgar Linton, who is her cousin but she also confesses some sort of love, although I don’t think that it is completely romantic for Heathcliff while he is secretly within earshot! What a twist of events! I guess I will have to read on to find out more.

5th Post

The reading that I did this week was full of plot development. I have begun to realize that romance novels such as, Wuthering Heights, are characterized by their rich plots and vivid characters. As I said this book is full of vivid characters. The narrator for the last few chapters has been the old gossipy maid that used to serve the Earnshaw family on Wuthering Heights. She is full of life and cast quite the opposite image of the estates other servant, Joseph. Joseph is vivid in more than one way, he is a devout Christian who always tries to sermonize about thing but he also stands out with his thick accent. Personally I find it hard to comprehend because I don’t understand that kind of English country accent. I always read it as a southern accent. This book also has a vivid plot. This week Heathcliff and Cathy snuck off to see how some relatives live at the residence of Thrushcross Grange. While they are outside peeking into the windows of the house they see their relative screaming and crying. They find themselves no longer envying the Lintons (The family of Thrushcross Grange) for their freedom from their parents. But, they realize that after they are attacked by the Linton family dog. Cathy is taken in and Heathcliff is sent away for his dark skin. I found that interesting to find out about what he looked like. Cathy stays away for weeks while Heathcliff is constantly pursued by Hindely. This helps build pity for Heathcliff and you can see it form when Cathy returns home and the maid who is narrating takes kindly upon him. There is some trouble with Heathcliff after her arrival but then again there always is and that is where I left off and I actually am excited to read more for once!