Withering Away Heights: Wuthering Heights Journal: Part Six

Just when it seemed it couldn't get any more depressing for the Lintons and Earnshaws, nope, it did.

So Isabella left the tyranny of her husband, Heathcliff. It's quite a lovely story, actually. Hindley and Isabella are sitting together with Heathcliff locked outside. Heathcliff breaks into the Heights, and wrestles with Hindley and somehow Isabella runs out.

She disappears for a while, and has Heathcliff's child, and dies. Granted, that didn't happen all at once... it happened over the course of three chapters.

So this child is named Linton (SIDENOTE: which, if she kept her maiden name [unheard of in the 1700s] would translate into "Linton Linton").

When Isabella dies, Linton is entrusted to her brother, Edgar.

Meanwhile, Mrs. Dean is bonding with Catherine II. She is entrusted with taking care of Catherine II, and takes her role quite seriously. This is where we learn what Catherine II is like... She is commonly called "angel" "queen" and "darling" by the servants. Mrs. Dean is the only person who dares challenge this notion, and Catherine II isn't too thrilled about this. More on that in a few.

So she takes daily pony rides (Catherine II is 13 at this point) and on one particular occasion, ventures up to Wuthering Heights. A preface here is that Hindley died within 6 months of Catherine I, and due to mortgaging his home to gambling money (Told you so... granted, his liver didn't explode). His gambling partner and mortgagee was, you guessed it, Heathcliff.

This explains how Heathcliff inherited the Heights with the history of being an unrelated gypsy...

Anyway, so Catherine II comes very close to meeting Heathcliff, but luckily the two never cross paths.

Chapter 20 ends with Joseph (remember him?) coming to steal Linton away from Edgar's care on behalf of Heathcliff. There is the undeniable fact that Linton is Heathcliff's son, but at the same time... Edgar seems like a more kid-friendly master. Just look what happened to Hareton?

Oh wait, I never caught you up to speed with him. He grew up with a drunkard father and Heathcliff (need I any more explanation on that?). Needless to say, Heathcliff treats him like dirt, and he is regarded as a servant in what should be his own house...

Okay, predictions: It seems like we are spiraling towards the present (1801) with Mr. Lockwood. Based on my own thoughts, it appears that we will again go to the Heights and eventually there will be something between Catherine II and Lockwood... Not sure how that'll turn out, but in this story, anything is possible!

I have a bad feeling as to how Catherine II turns out... I am not sure what happens to Edgar, but when he eventually kills over, I know for sure (considering our sneak peek of her at the beginning) she ends up at the Heights under Heathcliff's reign.