Catherine Earnshaw Character Analysis

Often blinded by love, people find themselves in peculiar situations with their significant other. In the story, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, one of the main characters, Catherine Earnshaw, is portrayed as a spoiled girl who marries into a wealthy family and abuses her powers as a princess to often get what she wants. Nelly Dean, the woman who grew up alongside Catherine, and Cathy’s husband, Edgar both play a big part of the story as main characters. Nelly and Edgar have similar yet controversial thoughts on the behavior of Cathy, as Nelly believes she is an overly dramatic girl who uses her emotions to get whatever it is that she desires. While at the same time, Cathy’s smitten lover believes that she is a smart young woman who uses her intellectual capacity to assume her personal needs and desires.

Nelly and Edgar’s opinions on Catherine’s attitude were vastly different. Growing up with Cathy, Nelly became accustomed to her irrational behaviors. As a child, Catherine threw many emotional temper tantrums whenever she didn’t get her way. Becoming a spoiled girl, led her into adulthood as a selfish person. With this knowledge, Nelly was very aware of Cathy’s true colors. Not having the personal background knowledge as Nelly does, Edgar is misled into temptation for Catherine as an adult. …show more content…
In Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte, a young girl of an average family grows up to be a selfish and spoiled person to the eyes of her friend, Nelly Dean. Edgar, falling madly in love with Catherine, is too blind to see her for who she really is and this creates a great contrast between Nelly and his opinions. Forming found opinions of the girl; Nelly and Edgar differ greatly in the way that they see Cathy. As time goes, people show their true colors at some point or another. Will Edgar ever see who Cathy really