1. The Presentation of Catherine Junior

2. She has Earnshaws “dark eyes” but the Lintons “fair skin”
Has her mother’s vitality, but the Earnshaw wildness is toned down by the Linton’s meekness
Strong sense of heredity from both parents. The embodiment of the best aspects of the two families, a combination of qualities
She has Earnshaws “dark eyes” but the Lintons “fair skin”
She is more ordinary and conventional than her mother – could be a normal, spoilt girl
“capacity for intense attachments reminded me of her mother”
“Her spirit was high, though not rough”
“she did not resemble [her mother]; for she could be soft and mild as a dove, and she had a gentle voice, and pensive expression: her anger was never furious; her love never fierce”
However like Catherine she desires to transgress the boundaries of the Grange: “Now, am I old enough to go to Penistone Craggs?” was the constant question in her mouth.

3. The window motif:
Catherine Senior’s ghost tries to get in at the same window of Wuthering Heights that Catherine Junior escapes from.
Dissimilar passions – one sees the Heights as imprisoning, the other as a place of freedom and peace from torment
Though both at some point find The Grange imprisoning (“the Grange is not a prison, Ellen, and you are not my jailor” & “the thing that irks me most is this shattered prison… I’m tired, tired of being enclosed here”)

4. Influence of setting on character:
Is Catherine Junior’s milder personality because she has inherited it from her father (nature) or because she was brought up at Thrushcross Grange (nurture) and “Wuthering Heights and Mr. Heathcliff did not exist for her”?
Cathy’s confinement to the Grange by Edgar represents his attempt to keep her civilized, and to make sure she develops into proper young woman and keep her within the boundaries seen as appropriate for her gender. Edgar and Nelly limit her knowledge of the world outside the Grange as an attempt to repress her curiosity and wildness that would liken her to Catherine
Wild, unrestrained, extreme, fierce passion, free, violent …
Wuthering Heights/ Catherine Senior
Tame, civilised, orderly, enclosed, idyllic, ordinary…
Thrushcross Grange/ Catherine Junior

5. What is the influence of Wuthering Heights on Catherine Junior?
Begins to seem more like her mother: - “black eyes flashing with passion” (when first imprisoned) “…seized with a sort of surprise at her boldness, or, possibly, reminded by her voice and glance, of the person from whom she inherited it”
- She shows brave resistance against Heathcliff and attempts to snatch the key from him
- “she looks so pale and wild, I’m afraid of her!”
Loses social status, but doesn’t adapt well: - “I should love well to bring her pride down a peg lower. And what will all her learning and her daintiness do for her, now? She’s as poor as you, or I – poorer”
Her personality changes: - “as chill as an icicle, and as high as a princess”
- “The more hurt she gets, the more venomous she grows”
- her eyes were full of “scorn and a kind of desperation, singularly unnatural to be detected there”

6. Mirroring - Each Catherine experiences two different kinds of love relationship:
socially advantaged but dissimilar in temperament – (Edgar Linton/ Linton Heathcliff)
socially inferior but emotionally compatible – (Heathcliff/ Hareton)
This mirroring explores the theme of courtly love vs true love
Cathy Senior chooses Edgar – the result is tragic, destructive and heart-breaking
Cathy and Haretons r’ship mirrors the r’ship between Catherine Snr and Heathcliff – Cathy and Hareton grow close, but she mocks Hareton for being illiterate, suggesting that like Catherine she is conscious of social class
Like Catherine and Heathcliff, Hareton and Cathy explore nature together and are caught by Nelly when they play on the moors. Like the generation before them they have a connection to nature

7. Cathy’s attraction to Linton mirrors Catherine Snr’s attraction to Edgar
However Cathy chooses to follow her heart unlike Catherine Senior. Cathy Junior’s happier ending with Hareton restores equilibrium and reinforces that true love is superior. This enables us to see more clearly that her mother chose wrongly. Does Cathy Junior’s ending show what could have been for Cathy and Heathcliff?
Unlike Catherine, she has the ability to feel remorse for her actions. She admits to Nelly that she feels guilty about mocking Hareton and this distinguishes her from her mother because she has the ability to feel guilt. When Catherine promises to teach Hareton to read, this distinguishes her from Catherine – whilst she has mocked Hareton, she is finally able to see beyond his class that Catherine could not ignore in Heathcliff

8. What is the function/purpose of Catherine Junior?
Creates a balance between extremes of emotion
Union with Hareton reconciles conflict between the two household
Similarities and differences to Catherine senior – deepens our understanding of the characters and enhances our ability to judge their actions
Without the second generation, the story is tragic, destructive and incomplete. Catherine Junior harmonises the passionate and fierce energies of previous generation
Cathy & Heathcliff’s love was unhealthily obsessive, intense and destructive – Catherine Junior demonstrates the human dimension of gentle patience to make love work
Overcomes the social constraints that her mother was victim to by marrying Hareton
Instrument for revenge for Heathcliff

9. Theme: Childhood & Treatment of children
Catherine Junior is pampered and spoilt
“I don’t believe he ever did speak a harsh word to her”
“always ‘love,’ and ‘darling,’ and ‘queen,’ and ‘angel’”
Until she was 13, she never once had been allowed beyond the range of the park by herself.
Contrast to the childhood/treatment of her mother, Heathcliff, Hareton, etc.
Heathcliff treats her badly at Wuthering Heights, hitting her – “I know how to chastise children”
When Heathcliff entraps Catherine and Nelly, Catherine says to Heathcliff “Mr Heathcliff, you’re a cruel man, but you’re not a fiend’ . Cathy is an embodiment of both the Grange and the Heights – her outspoken response reflects the spirit of the Heights, but her conforming to conduct represents the attitudes of the Grange

10. Demanding shrew At the beginning we see her as rude and hostile
Women in the gothic: Which is Cathy?
Self-sacrificing angel yes – is willing to marry Linton if she is allowed back to Thrushcross Grange to nurse her father
Mothers Linton, and looks after Nelly when she falls ill ‘like an angel’
Damsel in distress/ Trembling victim no – She shows brave resistance to Heathcliff
Seductress No
Angel in the home yes/no – Her childhood is domestic and confined indoors, but she longs to be out on the moors
Demanding shrew At the beginning we see her as rude and hostile
Femme-fatale No
Princess yes – She is pampered and spoilt and treated like a queen, Edgar is submissive and allows her to be

11. Catherine Junior: Catherine Senior:
Has Catherine’s spirit passed onto her daughter?
Catherine Junior:
“moaning doll of a child”
“it maintains a constant wail”
“an unwelcomed infant”
Born at midnight, liminal time
Mother died soon after
Catherine Senior:
“Our fiery Catherine was no better than a wailing child!”
Mirror scene – ch12
Cathy sees someone in the mirror and feels the room is haunted , Nelly tells Cathy it is herself, she says “’Myself!’ she gasped, “and the clock is striking twelve! It’s true then; that’s dreadful!”

12. Cathy Junior – “she grew like a larch”
Comparison:
Cathy Junior – “she grew like a larch”
Cathy Senior – “an oak in a flower pot”