Nelly

Question 1

Nelly shows her allegiance to the Lintons (1)

Answer 1

as Miss Cathy is to us- I mean, of the Lintons

Question 2

Nelly shows her allegiance to Edgar Linton (1)

Answer 2

My heart invariably cleaved to the master’s

Question 3

Nelly sees Hindley’s ghost (1)

Answer 3

the child lifted its face and stared straight into mine

Question 4

Nelly thinks herself the only sensible person in the Grange (1)

Answer 4

The Grange had but one sensible soul in its walls, and that lodged in my body

Question 5

Nelly shows how she doesn’t understand Catherine and instead wishes for a perfect exterior, brushing over important matters (1)

Answer 5

‘Give over with that baby-work!’ I interrupted, dragging the pillow away, and turning the holes towards the mattress

Question 6

Nelly shows how she may have been partly to blame for Catherine’s illness (1)

Answer 6

I should not have spoken so if I knew her true condition

Question 7

Nelly thinks Catherine’s illness is nothing to worry about (1)

Answer 7

‘but it is nothing’

Question 8

Lockwood affirms Nelly’s narration (1)

Answer 8

She is, on the whole, a very fair narrator, and I don’t think I could improve her style

Question 9

Nelly is glad that Catherine dies (2)

Answer 9

1) sincerely glad that Catherine’s arms had fallen flaxen

2) Far better than she should be dead, than lingering a burden and a misery-maker to all around her

Question 10

Nelly enjoys watching the dead (1)

Answer 10

I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break

Question 11

Nelly’s conventional religious comments after Cathy dies (2)

Answer 11

1) ‘Gone to heave, I hope, where we may, everyone, join her, if we take due warning, and leave our evil ways to follow good’
2) ‘Her life closed in a gentle dream- may she wake as kindly in the other world!’

Question 12

Nelly combines Edgar and Heathcliff’s hair in Catherine’s locket (1)

Answer 12

I twisted the two, and enclosed them together

Question 13

Nelly reads Cathy’s private letters (2)

Answer 13

1) at my leisure

2) worthless trash to me!

Question 14

Nelly does not understand love and that Cathy II could love Linton (1)

Answer 14

‘Loving! Did anybody ever hear the like!’

Question 15

Nelly can manipulate Cathy II (1)

Answer 15

‘you might kill him, if you were wild and reckless, and cherished a foolish, fanciful affection for the son of a person whom would be glad to have him in his grave’

Question 16

Nelly cannot stand Heathcliff talking of digging the grave (1)

Answer 16

I maintained silence- I didn’t like to hear him talk

Question 17

Zillah contrasts to Nelly (1)

Answer 17

‘I always refuse to meddle’