Chapter+11

=CHAPTER 11 := Linton Vs. Heathcliff Krystina G

__EVENTS or DEVELOPMENTS IN THIS CHAPTER:__ This chapter begins with Nelly’s daydream that something is wrong with Harteon. She stops by Wuthering Heights and sees him outside the gate. When she introduces herself and asks him to get his father, he throws a rock at her head. After he runs into the house, Heathcliff emerges and Nelly runs until she is completely out of his sight because she was scared. Later Heathcliff comes to Thrushcross Grange, where Nelly saw him kiss Isabel and ask her something. Upon entering the house, Heathcliff and Catherine get into a fight. Heathcliff accuses Catherine of being jealous and she accuses him of taking revenge for how she treated him infernally. During this fight, Edgar enters, looking for Catherine and attempts to get two men to “take care” of Heathcliff, but Catherine puts a stop to this. She locks both men, Nelly and herself in the room and she flung the key into the fire. Catherine attempted to make Edgar fight Heathcliff, to back up his words, but he left the room. She then persuaded Heathcliff to leave before Edgar returned with men and guns to hurt him. After this encounter, Catherine wanted to be alone and was going to try to “break their hearts by breaking [her] own” pg.107. She later threw a fit when Edgar asked her to choose between him and Heathcliff and she refused to eat or drink after this.

__2 IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS FROM THIS CHAPTER (and why):__ "[...] if she were so insane as to encourage that worthless suitor, it would dissolve all bonds of relationship between herself and him.” Pg. 109 Here Nelly is saying that if Catherine were crazy enough to keep seeing Heathcliff, it would ruin her marriage with Linton. This comes up later when Linton asks her to choose between him and Heathcliff. “I’ll try to break their hearts by breaking my own.” Pg. 107

Here we see why Catherine goes off on a tangent and wants to be left alone. She wants both of the men to suffer for making her choose.

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