Catherine's Injustice

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In wuthering heights, Catherine is being injustice because she can't decide between heathcliff and Edgar's live for her. Being injustice because she prefers money over love during the novel. The story starts turning into intensful love. Catherine was being fooled by money thinking it was love. Edgar knew everything that Catherine didn't know what love was during that time period. She was being fooled as time passed by, falling in love not know it wasn't love instead she was falling for money. On the other hand, heathcliff did love her even though he didn't have enough money as Edgar did. He demonstrated that she was the only one in his life and didn't need money to catch her attention. Catherine didn't had enough with that and expected

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