Nelly

“Ginny, Nelly, and Lissy, come downstairs at once! I have someone who I wish you to meet!” Mother called from downstairs. Ginny sighed and rolled out of bed. She hated when her mother woke her up by yelling; though she hated it when her mother woke her up by shaking her. Frankly, she just hated it when her mother woke her up. Ginny looked at her sisters and saw they were being just as sluggish as her. Neither of them seemed either to drag themselves out of bed. “Now!” Mother called from…

allowing them to grow into adults. Finally, Nelly, the servant, is the absolute most mature out of all the characters in Wuthering Heights. Ironically, it’s because she’s a servant. The first generation is filled to the brim with petty childishness.…

deer, named Nelly, who is mounted above the door of his office at Buckeye High School. Nelly is, “a deer that was found in a crack house, an abandoned crack house, in this basement, and mold was growing all over Nelly and Nelly is a terrible example of a taxidermist’s work,” Mr. Lutman states. “There is no real comparison. Nelly is the worst of the worst and Shelly is the best of the best”, Mr. Lutman compares. Nelly has the quality of something that one expects to find in the trash. Nelly is…

During the late winter months of 1801, a man named Lockwood rents an estate in the isolated moors of England. After meeting peculiar landlord Heathcliff, Lockwood asks housekeeper Nelly Dean if she knows of him. Nelly tells of being a child at Wuthering Heights, a servant with her mother. Owner Mr.Earnshaw, brings home an orphaned boy on his travels from Liverpool. Earnshaw children, Hindley and Catherine, despise the dark-skinned gypsy boy, Heathcliff. After the death of Mrs.Earnshaw,…

derives from their personas. From the very beginning, as the two women are introduced to the readers, there is a clear contrast between their two descriptions. The way these two women are viewed dictates how they are treated and how they treat others. Nelly describes Isabella to Lockwood as "a charming young lady of eighteen; infantile in manners,…

She started off with a false persona of kindness. Nelly informs Lockwood, “She behaved infinitely better than I dared to expect. She seemed almost overly fond of Mr. Linton; and even to his sister, she showed plenty of affection,” (92). Before Catherine 's relationship with Edgar was defined as more than a friendship they had a fight that displayed her wicked temper and exposed her haughty personality (73). Nelly observes that Edgar is careful not to upset Catherine and that Isabella…

How does Heathcliff 's character develop from chapters one through to eight? The novel teases the reader into thinking that Heathcliff is more than what he seems; that his cruelty is merely an expression of his frustrated love for Cathrine Earnshaw or that his sinister behaviours serve to conceal the heart of a romantic hero. Throughout these chapters, we get the impression that as Heathcliff gets older, he loses his innocence and that the love for Cathrine isn 't as pure and is presented in a…

like McKim knew but failed to warn Young that the horse was mistreated before and gelded freshly, in Vega's case, Jones also knew but failed to warn Vega that Nelly has the tendency to flick people's hats off. Furthermore, like in Young, where the horse was overall gentle and had no prior incident to hit or injure anyone, in Vega's case, Nelly overall was a gentle horse and never injured any…

accomplishment on his face her father looked over at her through the window. As they where loading Noyes onto the wagon he had a look of defeat on his face. Nelly ran out to see what they was arresting him for and the sheriff told her that he was wanted for stealing cattle and robbery all across the state.…

She succeeds in her second escape attempt, and arrives, bleeding and breathless, at the Grange. She tells Nelly that she had “run the whole way from Wuthering Heights… except where [she had] flown,” (157). When Hindley and Heathcliff were fighting, the former told Isabella that “[Heathcliff]’ll be [her] death, unless [she] can over reach him,” (161). Her ability…