“I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.”
I want to comment this passage because in my opinion it's a key situation in the story. Edgar Linton has asked Catherine to marry him and she was telling about it to Nelly. She accepted him but something wrong was in her soul and her heart. It was a big contradiction. I think it's silly of her. Anyway she loved Heathcliff and it was mutual love but she didn't want to become a beggar because of Heathcliff's poverty. She was in love not with Edgar but with his loveliness, richness and good manners. Nonsense! For a girl of twenty-two it's absurd to consider that all these qualities will be all her life and will never changed. It's possible that one day Mr Linton may become a poor man and it's obvious that he will lost his beauty with the lapse of time. And what will she have in the end? Nothing?
Any sort of relationship couldn't build without heartfelt love and mutual understanding. Catherine said that she was Heathcliff. He was always in her mind. So why did she hurt him? I know, she didn't want. But she exchanged a true friend and a man who loved her badly for a rich one. She made a fatal mistake and lost Heathcliff.
I want to comment this passage because in my opinion it's a key situation in the story. Edgar Linton has asked Catherine to marry him and she was telling about it to Nelly. She accepted him but something wrong was in her soul and her heart. It was a big contradiction. I think it's silly of her. Anyway she loved Heathcliff and it was mutual love but she didn't want to become a beggar because of Heathcliff's poverty. She was in love not with Edgar but with his loveliness, richness and good manners. Nonsense! For a girl of twenty-two it's absurd to consider that all these qualities will be all her life and will never changed. It's possible that one day Mr Linton may become a poor man and it's obvious that he will lost his beauty with the lapse of time. And what will she have in the end? Nothing?
Any sort of relationship couldn't build without heartfelt love and mutual understanding. Catherine said that she was Heathcliff. He was always in her mind. So why did she hurt him? I know, she didn't want. But she exchanged a true friend and a man who loved her badly for a rich one. She made a fatal mistake and lost Heathcliff.
Knowing you, Nata, I am not surprised that you chose this novel)) It is really very strange. I'm not sure that I would be impressed with this work, but the way you have described all was interested me)
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