Catherine Earnshaw from the book Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte has a few different character traits. Sometimes she can be as kind as an angel while other times she could become extremely angry. One day, while Edgar Linton was visiting Catherine at Wuthering Heights, she began yelling at Nelly for not leaving the room and even shook her nephew, slapped Nelly and even Edgar on accident (90). Catherine, however, is also beautiful and it is her beauty which makes Edgar Linton stay after she had struck him. In addition, Catherine Earnshaw also has an independent mind so that she will not heed advice from someone in a position of authority. Catherine tells Nelly that Linton has asked her to marry him and that she has accepted (98). Nelly is against the idea because she knows how Catherine's heart really belongs to Heathcliff (103). Unfortunately, Catherine refuses to see what Nelly is saying will be the consequences and she goes ahead and married Edgar Linton anyway (115). Finally, although Catherine is already married to Edgar, she becomes even closer in a relationship with Heathcliff (207). It seemed as if she would sometimes go into an imaginary world where she and Heathcliff were the only ones who existed.
Bronte, Emily, Wuthering Heights. David Daiches. London: Penguin, 1985
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