Summary
Cathy grows up in isolation at Thrushcross Grange. With Isabella dying, Edgar travels to London to pick up Linton. While he is away, Cathy goes exploring on the moor However, like her mother, she yearns to explore the moors and a certain rock formation called Penistone Crags. Because you have to go past the Heights to get there, Edgar forbids it. and meets Hareton at Wuthering Heights. Angry at Cathy, Nelly tries to make the girl go home right away, but Cathy resists leaving the Heights. She thinks it's Hareton's house, but when she finds out it isn't, Cathy starts treating him like a servant. She's shocked when he starts cussing her out. Nelly angrily tells Cathy that the rude and rough young man she thought was a servant is her cousin, Hareton. Cathy refuses to accept that and insists that her father is going to London to get her cousin (Linton Heathcliff). Apparently she doesn't know you can have more than one cousin. Nelly observes the young man that Hareton has become – "a well-made, athletic youth, good-looking in features, and stout and healthy". Heathcliff has denied him any education, so between his uncle and Joseph he has grown up without manners or guidance of any sort.
When Edgar arrives back at Thrushcross Grange with Linton. Before the day is out, Joseph arrives with orders to take the child to Wuthering Heights immediately but Edgar puts him off until the morning. The next day, Ellen takes Linton up to Wuthering Heights. Although Heathcliff despises the child, he assures Ellen that he will look after him as he has plans for him. As Nelly leaves the Heights, she hears Linton crying out, begging not to be left behind. On her sixteenth birthday, Catherine goes with Ellen onto the moor and meets Heathcliff to takes her back to Wuthering Heights to meet Hareton. She is prohibited by her father from seeing either of them again but keeps up a clandestine relationship via mail. Ellen finds out and burns the letters, forcing Catherine to promise to end the relationship. A few months later, Catherine and Ellen are walking around the grounds when they encounter Heathcliff on the boundary road. He explains that Linton is ill and believes that Catherine deliberately stopped writing. Heathcliff notes that he will be away for a week and she could visit in the meantime. Reluctantly, Ellen agrees to accompany her to Wuthering Heights the next day. At Wuthering Heights, they find Linton who quarrels with Cathy. He feigns illness and she is fooled into sympathy for him. They return home where Ellen is confined to bed with illness for a few weeks. While there, Cathy continues to visit Linton. Ellen learns of Cathy's secret visits to Wuthering Heights to see Linton. The former reveals the information to Edgar who prohibits Cathy from visiting the Heights again (although he allows Linton to visit Thrushcross Grange). As Edgar begins to decline and fear for the future, he reconsiders his opposition to Linton and comes to believe that a marriage between him and Cathy may be the best option so that she will not be left without an inheritance.
Analysis
- Cathy begins to pick up characteristics like her mother in this case exploring the moors. Bronte does this to show a modern version of Catherine and how things could of been if some circumstances were different
- Hareton: "a well-made, athletic youth, good-looking in features, and stout and healthy"
- Nelly and Lockwood discuss the possibility of Cathy falling in love with him
- Revenge: Heathcliff is getting worried, because to make his plan work, Cathy must marry Linton; that way he'll gets the Grange when his sickly son dies. So now he's in a race against Linton's death and Edgar's willingness to allow the marriage.
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