Lockwood estimates Heathcliff as about forty and Cathy as not yet seventeen.
Catherine was about eighteen or nineteen years old when she died in Wuthering Heights. Just before her engagement, Catherine is stated to be fifteen and "queen of the country-side." After Heathcliff runs away from home, Catherine becomes sick and the Lintons insist on caring for her at Thrushcross Grange.
Lockwood mentions at the beginning of Wuthering Heights that Heathcliff appears to be around forty years old.
Catherine gives birth to a daughter, Cathy, delivering her two months early—the baby is born at midnight, and Catherine passes away two hours later. Upon hearing the news from Nelly, Heathcliff seems to already be aware.
Deep down, Hareton has an uncanny resemblance to his aunt Catherine, and later on, Heathcliff cannot bear to look at him since he is a reminder that he could never have his true love. Cathy Linton- Hareton's cousin. He is about 6-7 years older than her and he first meets her on the moors.
Edgar's sister, Isabella, who becomes Heathcliff's wife, dies 12 years after giving birth to their son, Linton, who in his turn dies at age 17, not long after his arranged marriage to Cathy, Catherine's daughter.
Answer and Explanation: Heathcliff is described as a dark-skinned "gipsy" in Wuthering Heights: he is probably not of African descent but more likely of a dark brown complexion.
Secondly, there is no actual evidence in the book that the two of them ever had sex. Heathcliff ran away when he was sixteen and Catherine fifteen. It seems unlikely that they would have slept together before then.
Their relationship is portrayed in scenes of play that quickly become about domination and power. Cathy expresses her love by pulling out Heathcliff's hair and literally licking his wounds. Her actions are no less menacing when she takes advantage of Edgar's weak nature.
Later in life, he becomes a gentleman "in dress and aspect." Nelly Dean states that he could be an "American castaway." Heathcliff may have been of mixed race because he is described in the original book as a "dark-skinned gipsy" and "a little Lascar" – a 19th-century term for Indian sailors.
After informing Nelly of how she pursued her escape, and paying one last visit to Thrushcross Grange, her childhood home, Isabella removes somewhere "south of London", where she gives birth to Heathcliff's son, Linton, who resembles Isabella in every aspect.
Answer and Explanation: In Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights because he overhears Catherine Earnshaw say she can never marry him.
For many years he has now lived in the village of Thornton, actually right across the road from the house in which the Brontë sisters were born, before their father, Patrick, took them to Haworth when he took up his job as minister of the village, living in the now-famous parsonage.
The relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff is used as a central plot element of Wuthering Heights. The two are madly in love early in the book, but as the story continues, miscommunication and the class structures of the day forced the two apart.
1 Unwittingly, we must presume, the great neurologist extended his disdain to one of the great English novels, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, where the heroine, Catherine Earnshaw, died of a disease diagnosed as "brain fever".
Character information
Catherine "Cathy" Linton is a major character in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. She is the daughter of Catherine Earnshaw and Edgar Linton, and cousin to Hareton Earnshaw and Linton Heathcliff.
Heathcliff showed that he had narcissistic personality disorder. It would be proved by some evidence which showing the conditions of narcissistic personality disorder as the sign of symptoms in American Psychiatric Association.
In chapter 29 of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff tells Nelly Dean about how he dug up Catherine's body just after she was buried, back in chapter sixteen. Heathcliff went alone to the churchyard and, wild in grief for Catherine, dug down to her coffin and attempted to wrench it open.
Heathcliff's love for Catherine enables him to endure Hindley's maltreatment after Mr. Earnshaw's death. But after overhearing Catherine admit that she could not marry him, Heathcliff leaves. Nothing is known of his life away from her, but he returns with money.
Read as an expression of Emily Brontë's ambivalence about her sexual identity, Wuthering Heights is both a representation of homosexual energy and an attempt to contain or imprison it for fear of its social unacceptability and perhaps also of its sheer power.
Catherine kisses Heathcliff, but while doing so, she comments upon his dirty appearance and compares him unfavorably to Edgar. Heathcliff is hurt by the changes in his friend's appearance and attitude.
Catherine's pregnancy is significant in that it embodies the betrayal Heathcliff feels Catherine has done to him. Heathcliff loves Catherine desperately and he knows that she loves him too, but she married someone else who had a better social status than Heathcliff, and to top things off she is also pregnant.
In his account, Heathcliff is the illegitimate son of Mr Earnshaw, born of a formerly enslaved woman who is brought to Liverpool docks from the Caribbean.
Initially, it was the name of his son who died soon after his birth. Mr. Ernshaw did not bother to give a boy his family name. Heathcliff's name is also his surname.
Study focus: Inheritance
Catherine's personal property passes to Edgar upon marriage. Hindley gambles his inheritance away, and on his death it emerges that Heathcliff is the mortgagee of the Heights, so the property is his.