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.