She refuses to conform to the role of housewife/daughter-in-law/ object. Like her mother’s, Cathy’s story is structured around men. She plays out an alternate version of Catherine and Heathcliff’s relationship between herself and Hareton. The success of Hareton’s relationship with Cathy serves to illustrate a more successful outcome, had Catherine acted differently or under different circumstances. As the plot progresses, Cathy moves to occupy the spaces and roles her mother vacated or refused. By marrying Hareton, Cathy becomes Catherine Earnshaw, refilling her mother’s first full name. She also redeems him. Cathy relinquishes the role of Gothic/Romantic Heroine when she refuses to submit to Heathcliff, or to anybody else. Like her mother, Cathy utilizes her feminine influence over the men in her life, particularly, in Cathy’s case, Hareton. However, unlike the conduct books of the time would require, Cathy was not a fully nurturing female. She works to undo her unkindness towards her cousin by adopting the feminine tactics of stealth and indirection to rekindle his
She refuses to conform to the role of housewife/daughter-in-law/ object. Like her mother’s, Cathy’s story is structured around men. She plays out an alternate version of Catherine and Heathcliff’s relationship between herself and Hareton. The success of Hareton’s relationship with Cathy serves to illustrate a more successful outcome, had Catherine acted differently or under different circumstances. As the plot progresses, Cathy moves to occupy the spaces and roles her mother vacated or refused. By marrying Hareton, Cathy becomes Catherine Earnshaw, refilling her mother’s first full name. She also redeems him. Cathy relinquishes the role of Gothic/Romantic Heroine when she refuses to submit to Heathcliff, or to anybody else. Like her mother, Cathy utilizes her feminine influence over the men in her life, particularly, in Cathy’s case, Hareton. However, unlike the conduct books of the time would require, Cathy was not a fully nurturing female. She works to undo her unkindness towards her cousin by adopting the feminine tactics of stealth and indirection to rekindle his