Catherine's Father Case Study

27-28

Catherine's father continues to get worse and worse. She reluctantly slips away with Nelly to the heights and Heathcliff traps both of them there. Heathcliff forces Catherine onto Linton and locks Nelly in the house for five days. Zillah frees Nelly and she searches for Catherine. She encounters Linton and he gloats over the fact they are now married. Nelly flees without her fearing Heathcliff and attempts to send men there but fails. She eventually comes on her own and was able to be with Edgar when he died. He was buried next to Cathy.

Why doesn't Catherine simply refuse, someone would've come looking for them eventually. Linton honestly didn't have the strength to force her. Could've been a parallel where Cathy had starved and locked herself away until she got what she wanted.

Why Heathcliff.

29-30

After the funeral, Heathcliff forces Cathy to come live with he and Linton. He tells her that she'll have to work for her keep. She yells at him that she is in love with Linton and that he'll never have anybody to love him. After that Nelly asks for a position at the heights but Heathcliff interrupts her and tells her how he wants to decay with Cathy in the earth and already had it all arranged. Later on Linton finally dies and Nelly gets the info from Zillah. And that's where we catch up with Lockwood. He decides to move out.

Why doesn't Catherine just run away with Linton, all her and her father's possessions belong to him.

Lockwood at this point appears to be the only sensible character, and he's awful. What is this book.

31-32

Lockwood delivers a letter to Cathy from Nelly. Cathy and Hareton are in cahoots as always. Heathcliff tells Hareton that he is