• Later, Heathcliff returns, now a wealthy gentleman. Catherine has married Edgar. Edgar's sister, Isabella, soon falls in love with Heathcliff, who despises her but encourages the infatuation as a means of revenge. Upset, Catherine locks herself in her room, and begins to make herself ill again through spite and jealousy. Finally Heathcliff marries Isabella and Catherine dies after giving birth to her daughter, Cathy.
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Wuthering Heights
Thrushcross Grange
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Plot
• Opening (chapters 1 to 3) • Heathcliff's childhood (chapters 4 to 17) • Heathcliff's maturity (chapters 18 to 31) • Ending (chapters 32 to 34)
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Heathcliff's childhood (chapters 4 to 17)
• Thirty years earlier, Wuthering Heights is occupied by Mr Earnshaw, with his son Hindley and his daughter Catherine. On a trip to Liverpool, Earnshaw encounters a homeless gypsy boy. He adopts the boy and names him Heathcliff. Hindley feels that Heathcliff has supplanted him in his father's affections and becomes bitterly jealous. Catherine and Heathcliff become friends and become close. Three years later, Earnshaw dies and Hindley becomes the master of Wuthering Heights. He returns to live there with his new wife, Frances. He allows Heathcliff to stay but only as a servant.