4th Post

This week I read about the death of old Earnshaw and the events that precipitated it. I was so surprised to find out that heathcliff became more hated because Hindley had been sent away to college so the house could be at rest. Unfortunately, Joseph, the blundering servant with the terrible accent I have read about before, spread his piety to old Earnshaw and this truly messed things up. His children no longer could have much fun under the devout rules of Joseph and they grew very rebellious to all this. Joseph even impressed upon the dying Mr. Earnshaw that his daughter was terrible and he partly believed it and began to denounce his daughter by saying things like, “I cannot love thee; thou art worst than thy brother…” (50). This shows what kind of pain Cathy went through and it would be very hard to hear this from her own father. Initially she was hurt by the declarations against her but soon she grew immune to them or so the book says. I think that when her father said those things she was till hurt each time but she just couldn’t let it show either to not let her senile father delight in her pain or to hide her pain from Joseph because he was the one inspiring the hatred in Mr. Earnshaw. Another interesting part about the section that I read was the change of narrators. I still don’t know whether or not it is permanent or not but it found it strange. The other strange part is that none of the narrators are part of the family.