wuthering heights help?

Question

can sumone get me a chapter number where i can find a quote where Heathcliff is talking to Catherine's ghost?

Answer 1

Well, there's more than one scene.

There's a scene in chapter 3 where he's screaming out the window for her, "'Come in! come in!' Cathy, do come. Oh, do - once more! Oh! my heart's darling! hear me this time, Catherine, at last!". (Her ghost had showed itself to Lockwood, and Heathcliff was beside himself about it.) But her ghost did not show herself to him in this scene.

Then there's scenes near the end of the book in the last chapter (ch 34) where Heathcliff almost seems to become delusional, and he's constantly staring as if he's looking at someone. At one point he's staring like that, and it scares Nelly, who says, "'Mr. Heathcliff! master! Don't, for God's sake, stare as if you saw an unearthly vision!" and he says to her, "Turn round, and tell me, are we by ourselves?." Then a little later Nelly says: "I distinguished Mr. Heathcliff's step, restlessly measuring the floor, and he frequently broke the silence by a deep inspiration, resembling a groan. He muttered detached words also; the only one I could catch was the name of Catherine, coupled with some wild term of endearment or suffering; and spoken as one would speak to a person present; low and earnest, and wrung from the depth of his soul."
Later, he makes one last comment to Nelly and the younger Catherine after asking them to come and sit with him (which they did not want to do) "Well, there is ONE who won't shrink from my company! By God! she's relentless." It's clear he's referring to Catherine's ghost. That's the last time that Nelly sees him alive. That night he goes into his room, and Nelly says, "Through the whole night, and far into the morning, we heard him groaning and murmuring to himself." It is not clear whether he is actually talking to himself here or talking to Catherine's ghost. He stays locked in his room the whole next day, and then the next morning Nelly finds him dead.

Answer 2

It's about two thirds of the way into Chapter 3.