Name_______________________________ Classwork/Homework

Wuthering Heights
Homework #8 pages 191-208, chapters 15 and 16
9 points

Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. How does Catherine respond to Heathcliff when she first sees him?

2. Compare Catherine’s eyes in the start of this section with Heathcliff’s eyes.

3. Catherine says that she wants to be isolated (in this case, dead
and buried.) Do you believe her? Or is this a way to attract
attention? Why?

4. Explain the contradiction that Heathcliff says when he tells Catherine, “I love my murderer–but
yours! How can I?”
5. What is implied by the fact that young Catherine has a friendless beginning?

6. Both Heathcliff and Nelly worry (both inwardly and aloud) about what aspect of Catherine after her
death?

7. If you think back to the night that Lockwood spent at Wuthering Heights, we now know why
Heathcliff stood at the window calling to Catherine (page 34.) Why do you think he did this and said
what he said?

8. What is ironic about the fact that Heathcliff calls Catherine his “soul”?

9. Why does Nelly help Heathcliff? It is pity? Obligation? Loyalty? Something else?