Summary
The next autumn, Lockwood visits Thrushcross Grange on a trip north. He finds Ellen has moved to Wuthering Heights. Lockwood visits the Heights and is immediately struck by the changes in its appearance. The gate, for once, is not locked. Doors and windows are open and a fire lights up the chimney. More shocking than the change in atmosphere is the fact that Cathy is teaching Hareton to read.When he arrives there, he finds that Hareton and Cathy are in love and Heathcliff has been dead three months. Nelly tells him of the events since he left, explaining how Cathy gradually broke down Hareton's resistance by offering to teach him to read. Nelly then announces that Hareton and Cathy are soon to be married. In Nelly's account, Cathy persuades Hareton to dig up some of Joseph's fruit bushes to make a garden. When Heathcliff finds out though, his expected outburst is muted. He is strangely quiet and tells Ellen that he feels a change coming on, that he is haunted by Catherine everywhere. Heathcliff grows worse, roaming the moors and neither eating nor sleeping. He sees Catherine everywhere he looks but is strangely happy. Eventually he is found dead in Catherine's room and is buried alongside her. Lockwood leaves with Hareton and Cathy planning to marry and move to Thrushcross Grange.
Analysis
- Themes of social status: Cathy humiliates him for his illiteracy
- Retrospective falls back to the beginning
- Heathliff has changed "[W]hen everything is ready, and in my power, I find the will to lift a slate off either roof has vanished!"//Cathy reports that he has a "different" look on his face//"strange joyful glitter in his eyes"//"goblin"// "Is he a ghoul, or a vampire?"
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