Wuthering Heights Ch. 29-end
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Catherine’s appraisal of why Heathcliff acts as he does, following death of Edgar
Heathcliff’s arrangement of Catherine’s grave and coffin so that he can one day lie beside her instead of Edgar
Heathcliff’s story about the day of her burial when he almost opened her coffin but felt her like a ghost and how she
has tortured him since the day she died
Catherine’s treatment of Hareton and how it changes over time – why does it change?
Heathcliff - comes in to see Catherine and Hareton reading, and the glow of fire and happiness in their eyes makes
them both resemble Catherine so much that the reader expects a major fit of passion and anger from Heathcliff, he
goes over to them, looks at book, sighs, and then walks away – says to Nelly “I get levers and mattocks to demolish
the two houses, and train myself to be capable of working like Hercules, and when everything is ready and in my
power, I find the will to lift a slate off either roof has vanished!..”
Heathcliff: “Last night I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it:
hardly three feet to sever me!”
Nelly’s musings about Heathcliff as unnatural (goblin, vampire, etc.)
Explain what Heathcliff means when he tells Nelly, “I tell you I have nearly attained MY heaven; and that of others is
altogether unvalued and uncovered by me.”
Nelly finds Heathcliff dead with a “frightful, life-like gaze of exultation” on his face
Rumors of seeing Heathcliff with a female ghost persist – Joseph claims to see them every evening…
Lockwood, looking at three graves, “wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in
that quiet earth.”
Wuthering Heights Ch. 29-end
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Catherine’s appraisal of why Heathcliff acts as he does, following death of Edgar
Heathcliff’s arrangement of Catherine’s grave and coffin so that he can one day lie beside her instead of Edgar
Heathcliff’s story about the day of her burial when he almost opened her coffin but felt her like a ghost and how she
has tortured him since the day she died
Catherine’s treatment of Hareton and how it changes over time – why does it change?
Heathcliff - comes in to see Catherine and Hareton reading, and the glow of fire and happiness in their eyes makes
them both resemble Catherine so much that the reader expects a major fit of passion and anger from Heathcliff, he
goes over to them, looks at book, sighs, and then walks away – says to Nelly “I get levers and mattocks to demolish
the two houses, and train myself to be capable of working like Hercules, and when everything is ready and in my
power, I find the will to lift a slate off either roof has vanished!..”
Heathcliff: “Last night I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it:
hardly three feet to sever me!”
Nelly’s musings about Heathcliff as unnatural (goblin, vampire, etc.)
Explain what Heathcliff means when he tells Nelly, “I tell you I have nearly attained MY heaven; and that of others is
altogether unvalued and uncovered by me.”
Nelly finds Heathcliff dead with a “frightful, life-like gaze of exultation” on his face
Rumors of seeing Heathcliff with a female ghost persist – Joseph claims to see them every evening…
Lockwood, looking at three graves, “wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in
that quiet earth.”