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.