Answer TWO of the
following…
Q1: How does Nelly’s
relationship with the second Catherine develop?
Also, how does she characterize her throughout these chapters? Is she ‘better’ than the previous
Catherine? Worse? What traits or similarities does Nelly try to
impress upon the reader?
Q2: Where do you see any
narrative ‘slips’ by Nelly in these passages? Playing on the idea that she is less narrating history than writing it, where do you see her ‘writing’ rather
than narrating the story? In other
words, where do you see what she says at odds with what might actually be
happening—or what others directly say is happening?
Q3: Discuss Heathcliff’s
motives in these chapters: why does he insist on taking Linton back, and why
does he instigate a romance between Linton and Catherine? We know why Nelly thinks he is…but is she
right? Is the only motive for this a
nefarious one?
Q4: The first Catherine once called Nelly “my hidden enemy—you witch!” (1.12.117). How does the
second Catherine come to see and ‘read’ Nelly?
Does she trust her as implicitly as her mother did? Does she discern any ‘cracks’ in her
guardianship?
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