Moral Stories

Wuthering Heights continues

Five weeks later, Catherine returns to wuthering Heights but she has now changed looking and acting like a lady. She laughs at Heathcliff s enkempt appearance and the next day when the Lintons visit he dresses up to impress her. It fails when Edgar makes fun of him and they argue . Heathcliff is locked in the attic where in the evening Catherine climbs over the roof to comfort him. He vows to get revenge on Hindley. In the summer of the next year Frances gives birth to a child. Hareton but she dies before the year is out This leads Hindley to descend into a life of drunkenness and waste. Two years on and Catherine has become close friends with Edgar, growing more distant from Heathcliff. One day in August while Hindley is absent, Edgar comes to visit Catherine. She has an argument with Ellen which then spreads to Edgar who tries to leave. Catherine stops him and before long, they declare themselves lovers. Later Catherine talks with Ellen, explaining that Edgar had asked her to marry him and she had accepted.she says that she doesn't really like Edgar but Heathcliff. Unfortunately she could not marry the latter because of his lack of status and uneducation. She therefore plans to marry Edgar and use that position to help raise Heathcliff's standing . Unfortunately Heathcliff had overhead the first part about not being able to marry him and flees from the farmhouse. He disappeared without trace and after three years Edgar and Catherine are married.