How does nelly feel about catherine

She agrees to marry Edgar yet naively thinks this marriage will not affect her relationship with Heathcliff.

Catherine, like most of Victorian society, views marriage as a social contract and not the ultimate commitment between lovers. In her eyes, she and Heathcliff are one; therefore, her marriage to Edgar could not possibly affect the spiritual connection she has with Heathcliff. In addition to their spiritual connection, a symbolic connection between Catherine and Heathcliff also exists.

When Catherine arrives at Thrushcross Grange, she is as much an outsider there as Heathcliff was when he arrived at Wuthering Heights. Upon their arrivals, both wreak havoc and turmoil on the inhabitants. Although Catherine chooses to marry and live with Edgar, she is out of her element. Milo a famous Greek athlete who, caught by the tree he was trying to split, was eaten up by wild beasts; here, Catherine suggests that anyone who attempts to split Heathcliff and herself will end up destroyed.

Previous Chapter 8. Next Chapter Secondly, when Catherine becomes sick and Nelly does not tell Edgar how the extent of her illness. I say it is a central part of the story because it is something that other characters are aware of and that comes up in the dialogue.

There is another way to look at this relationship however and it is one concerning the relationships between servants and their mistresses. In particular, these relationships when the servants were raised alongside their mistresses and were, at one point, peers. There was a time when they were children that they got along. Even in a place as remote and as secluded from society as Wuthering Heights I am referring not to the novel, but the specific house in the novel , we still see the tensions of social class.

The issue of social class plays a very important role in this book and it is particularly explored and analyzed in the relationship between Nelly and Catherine.

Nelly disapproved, and Cathy admitted that she was sure she was wrong: she had had a dream in which she went to heaven and was unhappy there because she missed Wuthering Heights. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff, now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightening, or frost from fire.

Nelly feels that she is misguided because Catherine doesn't want to be with edgar for love, but for his money and status. Catherine tells Nelly that If Edgarn Linton demand that she forsake Heathcliff that she would not marry him because she loves Heathcliff and doesnt't want to live a life without him.

In Catherines response she states that her feelings for Edgar may change so she might actually love him for the right reasons someday but that her feelings for Heathcliff will always remain the same.