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    1) Catherine Linton is described as kind and generous, especially towards Hareton, unlike her mother Catherine Earnshaw who could be arrogant. 2) As a child, Catherine is gentle but becomes cold and dismissive when living miserably at Wuthering Heights. Finding romance with Hareton restores her bubbly personality. 3) Catherine sees herself as others might see her, suggesting one can only understand themselves through self-reflection, as with getting to know others.

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    1) Catherine Linton is described as kind and generous, especially towards Hareton, unlike her mother Catherine Earnshaw who could be arrogant. 2) As a child, Catherine is gentle but becomes cold and dismissive when living miserably at Wuthering Heights. Finding romance with Hareton restores her bubbly personality. 3) Catherine sees herself as others might see her, suggesting one can only understand themselves through self-reflection, as with getting to know others.

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    1) Catherine Linton is described as kind and generous, especially towards Hareton, unlike her mother Catherine Earnshaw who could be arrogant. 2) As a child, Catherine is gentle but becomes cold and dismissive when living miserably at Wuthering Heights. Finding romance with Hareton restores her bubbly personality. 3) Catherine sees herself as others might see her, suggesting one can only understand themselves through self-reflection, as with getting to know others.

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    Catherine

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    Character Profile

    CHARACTER TRAITS
    Curious and mischievous
    Demanding and wild
    She has a tendency towards headstrong behaviour, impetuousness and
    occasional arrogance
    She can be peevish and snobbish
    However, she is described as a gentler and more compassionate creature
    than her mother.
    She is generous and kind, particularly towards Hareton

    PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
    Catherine had reached her full height; her figure was both plump and
    slender, elastic as steel, and her whole aspect sparkling with health and
    spirits (Nelly)
    Small features, very fair; flaxen ringlets, or rather golden, hanging loose on
    her delicate neck; and eyes - had they been agreeable in expression, they
    would have been irresistible (Lockwood)
    Perhaps you never have remarked that their eyes are precisely similar, and
    they are those of Catherine Earnshaw. The present Catherine has no
    other likeness to her, except for the breadth of forehead and a certain
    arch of the nostril that makes her appear rather haughty, whether she will
    or not. (Nelly)

    ACTIONS THEY TAKE


    She seeks out Wuthering Heights, despite not being allowed to travel there
    due to Heathcliff residing there - Edgars enemy
    She grows close to Linton despite Nelly trying to keep her away
    Cathy is forbidden by Nelly to visit Wuthering Heights and so she begins
    writing love letters to Linton
    After Linton dies, Cathy and Hareton form an unlikely romance
    Cathy aids Hareton in his education

    BEHAVIOUR
    Catherine Linton is a kinder, gentler version of her mother, thanks in part to her relationship with
    Edgar, an extremely dedicated father. Though she can be peevish and snobbish, Catherine's
    generosity and kindness toward Hareton, not to mention her love of the simpering Linton
    Heathcliff, demonstrate a kind of compassion and selflessness that her mother never had.
    At first, Catherine is gentle and kind, but a bit snobbish because of her guarded and wealthy
    upbringing at the Grange; however, when reduced to a life of misery at the Heights, she grows
    cold, distant and dismissive of everyone around her. It is her romance with Hareton that reestablishes her bubbly personality.
    When Cathy talks about herself, she is oddly dissociatedshe describes herself using the same
    terms and syntax she would use to describe another person. This suggests that we can only
    understand our minds by spending time with ourselvesthe same way we would get to know
    any other person.

    IMAGES THEY ARE


    ASSOCIATED WITH
    Theme of Doubles: Due to the symmetrical structure of Wuthering Heights, it follows naturally that
    Bront should include doubles in the novel. Catherine Earnshaw notes her own "double
    character" when she tries to explain her attraction to both Edgar and Heathcliff, and their
    shared name suggests that Cathy Linton is, in some ways, a double for her mother.

    WHAT THEY SAY


    They are not mine more repellingly than Heathcliff himself could have
    replied
    A strange choice of favourites she observed scornfully
    Bitter when at Wuthering Heights

    WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SAY


    ABOUT THEM
    Nelly
    About eleven o'clock that night was born the Catherine you saw at Wuthering Heights: a puny,
    seven-months' child; and two hours after the mother died, having never recovered sufficient
    consciousness to miss Heathcliff, or know Edgar (to Lockwood)
    "capacity for intense attachment, reminding me of her mother, and still she did not resemble
    her: for she could be soft and mild as a dove". Nelly also suggested that "her anger was never
    furious, her love never fierce".

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