Cathy’s Feelings for Edgar and Heathcliff Essay -- English Literature

Cathy’s Feelings for Edgar and Heathcliff ========================================= In this essay I am going to explain Cathy’s feelings for both Edgar Linton and Heathcliff. She had complex relationships with both Edgar and Heathcliff starting from when she was young. In her youth Cathy spent a lot of time with Heathcliff. This is the time when she first fell in love with him. She used to spend a lot of time running out to the moors with him. They would never be apart and shared everything with each other. The first time she met Edgar was when she went to Thrushcross grange. She stayed there for 5 weeks and came back cleaner and more sophisticated. The reason she went there was because Heathcliff herself snuck out to the moors. They went to thrushcross grange. But they were noticed through a window, by Edgar and his sister Isabelle. They took Cathy into the house, but not Heathcliff. When she came back from the grange, Cathy’s feelings hadn’t changed for Heathcliff but she felt that she was now in a higher social class to him and that she was distanced from him because of it. He thought that he was dirty. She said to him, â€Å" If you wash your face and brush your hair you will be alright.† This hurts Heathcliff. She hates it when Heathcliff is treated badly. She often expresses this. As Cathy gets older she starts to spend a lot more time with Edgar. After several visits to Wuthering Heights Edgar asks her to marry her and she accepts. She talks to Nelly (a housekeeper) about his proposal and she asks why she wants to marry him. She says it is because â€Å" he is handsome, young and cheerful, and rich and loves me.† Nelly doesn’t agree with her decision because she thinks the reasons aren’t good enou... ...e to either Heathcliff or Edgar. Both Edgar and Heathcliff are very upset. Heathcliff was angry that she died because they had began to show their love for each other again. He didn’t want to live in a world where he couldn’t find her. Heathcliff would rather be haunted by her. He says â€Å" you said I killed you- Haunt me then! The murdered do haunt their murderers.† This shows his distraught state of mind at the time of Cathy’s death. Edgar however, was less angry about her death and grieved more quietly. He acted very solitude. He had no communication with anyone for hours and did not sleep or eat. Up to her death, Catherine Linton’s feelings for Heathcliff did not change. She always loved him, even whilst she was married to Edgar. Her feelings for Edgar were also strong, but they were never quite as strong as for Heathcliff and Edgar resented this.