The second installment of the Wuthering Heights revised series by N J Dorrian has been published:A Wuthering Heights Variation Novella. Earnshaw
Authored by N J Dorrian
Publication Date: sep 01 2015
ISBN: 9780993896378
The second in an eight-book series based on the classic romance, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights and Cathy to find his father and exact his revenge. Heartsick by loss of Heathcliff, Catherine agrees to marry Edgar Linton in order to save Hindley from ruin. Heathcliff's return three years later prompts an ecstatic reunion between the two lovers that has tragic consequences. Discovering in Catherine's diary a record of love, betrayal and humiliation, Emily struggles with revealing the salacious details as her hope for publication is revived by W&R Chambers of Edinburgh.
The second in an eight-book series based on the classic romance, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights and Cathy to find his father and exact his revenge. Heartsick by the loss of Heathcliff, Catherine is obliged to marry Edgar Linton to save Hindley from ruin. Heathcliff's return three years later prompts an ecstatic reunion between the two lovers that has tragic consequences. Catherine's diary provides a record of the true nature of their love and Emily struggles with revealing the salacious details as her hope for publication is revived by W&R Chambers of Edinburgh.
I would think Cathy would marry Edgar Linton in order to save the Heights far, far more than Hindley . But back then it was one and the same if she didn't want to see the Heights to go to strangers though his mismanagement .
ReplyDeleteHowever Cathy did love Linton. ...just not anything like she loved Heathcliff as she carefully explained to Nelly . But before Heathcliff's returned, Cathy was a brisk , settled matron expecting to supply her kind husband with a brace of sons.That persona went smash when Heathcliff did return and Cathy reawakened to herself with shattering force.
But even Heathcliff 's reappearance wasn't the death knell. It was Edgar Linton's mistrustful barring Heathcliff from the Grange and Cathy altogether . Cut off from the heath and now the returned Heathcliff , Cathy became ill .
Lintion then doubled down his mistake by the fatal , and characteristic error, of leaving Cathy alone in her room for three days . He should have pounded on the door and insisted on seeing her. She was waiting for that as a last possible chance for him and her on this earth. But alas even though Linton loved Cathy, and knew her ill he did not have that power of love in him and never would...( as Heathcliff pointed out ) and there was the final blow. She saw what passed for Linton's love in all its puny glory...mistrustful, temped , mild like milk. Cathy could not thrive on such fare.
Heathcliff would not have waited ten minutes much less three days . Cathy was like the very air to him. You don't sensibly wait for air to return . You desperately seek it. That was love as she understood it