Did Cathy die in childbirth? I was confused there, because she would have been 9 months pregnant when Heathcliff showed up for the last time, and I don't remember anything about her pregnancy, especially since she was so ill.
2007-09-28 09:16:51 · 2 answers · asked by Sarah 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Sorry, she did:
"When Heathcliff returns he is both wealthy and vengeful. Driven to cruelty by his dark demons, he ceaselessly torments Cathy with accusations of betrayal. Unable to tame Heathcliff and indomitable to his cruelty their love is never resolved. Cathy dies in childbirth, wretchedly unhappy. Before her death she explains her love-torn heart to Nelly, the housemaid: "My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods . . . My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath, a source of little visible delight, but necessary."
see sparknotes - 2nd link - for much more, please.
2007-09-28 09:22:33 · answer #1 · answered by johnslat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They don't really talk about her pregnancy before her death. (I think Nelly *might* have made a very brief mention of it, but I'd have to go back and read it again to be sure.) She didn't exactly die *IN* childbirth, she died a few hours after the birth. The book says "About twelve o'clock that night was born the Catherine you saw at Wuthering Heights: a puny, seven months child; and two hours after the mother died, never having recovered sufficient consciousness to miss Heathcliff, or know Edgar."
The baby was premature. (she was a "seven-months child".)
2007-09-29 20:43:33 · answer #2 · answered by Jess H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋