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Wuthering Heights
Homework #9 pages 209-231, chapter 17
9 points

Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. Explain how the metaphor of snow over the flowers might be foreshadowing of future events.

2. Why does Isabella say that she does not cry over Catherine despite the fact that she is upset over her
death?

3. Heathcliff had said earlier that he would do to Isabella what Catherine had done to him. Has he? In
what way?

4. Why does Isabella warn Heathcliff about Hindley? What

does this say about her?
5. How is Linton’s eventual reaction to Catherine’s death (described at the bottom of page 226) different
from that of Heathcliff’s?

6. What had Hindley done that now leaves Heathcliff as the owner of Wuthering Heights?

7. Explain what Heathcliff means when he says to Hareton on page 230, “you are mine! And we’ll see
if one tree won’t grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!”

8. Heathcliff has money (although the great secret is that no one knows where he got it) so it is clear that
he does not want to own Wuthering Heights for the property value. What is the symbolic meaning
for Heathcliff of owning the estate?

9. What is one example from this section of how choices we make affect future generations?