WH: Social Class Flashcards
Heathcliff’s description of TG
Both of us were able to look in by standing on the basement, and clinging to the ledge, and we saw - ah! It was beautiful - a splendid place carpeted with crimson, and crimson-covered chairs and tables, and a pure white ceiling bordered by gold, a shower of glass-drops hanging in silver chains from the centre, and shimmering with little soft tapers.
C6, P33
Great glass panes
The curtains were still looped up at one corner, and I resumed my station as spy; because, if Catherine wished to return, I intended shattering their great glass panes to a million fragments, unless they let her out
Heathcliff - C6, P35
Nelly describing Cathy returning from TG
Instead of a wild, hatless savage jumping into the house, and rushing to squeeze us all breathless, there ‘lighted from a handsome black pony a very dignified person, with brown ringlets falling from the cover of a feathered beaver, and a long cloth habit, which she was obliged to hold up with both hands that we might sail in
C7, P36
Cathy’s return from TG
I removed the habit, and there shone forth beneath a grand plaid silk frock, white trousers, and burnished shoes; and, while her eyes sparkled joyfully when the dogs came bounding up to welcome her, she dared hardly touch them lest they dawn upon her splendid garments
C7, P36
Mr and Mrs Earnshaw’s reaction to Cathy’s return from TG
Mr and Mrs Earnshaw watched anxiously their meeting; thinking it would enable them to judge, in some measure, what grounds they had for hoping to succeed in separating the two friends
C7, P36
Cathy’s clothing
She gazed concernedly at the dusky fingers she held in her own, and also at her dres; which she feared had gained no embellishment from its contact with his
C7, P37
Mrs Linton and Heathcliff
Mrs Linton shoved him back with a sudden thrust, and angrily bade Joseph “keep the fellow out of the room - send him into the garret till dinner is over. He’ll be cramming his fingers in the tarts and stealing the fruit, if left alone with them a minute”
C7, P40
Heathcliff to Cathy
Heathcliff: “Why have you that silk frock on, then?” he said. “Nobody coming here, I hope?”
C8, P48
Nelly’s advice to Cathy about a marriage to Edgar
You will escape from a disorderly, comfortless home into a wealthy, respectable one
C9, P56
Cathy describing Isabella and Edgar
But they are very much alike: they are spoiled children, and fancy the world was made for their accommodation; and though I humour both, I think a smart chastisement might improve them all the same
C10, P71
Description of Hareton
Good things lost amid a wilderness of weeds, to be sure, whose rankness far over-topped their neglected growth; yet, notwithstanding, evidence of a wealthy soil, that might yield luxuriant crops under other and favourable circumstances
C18, P143
Catherine
Catherine: “Papa is gone to fetch my cousin from London: my cousin is a gentleman’s son. That my - “ she stopped, and wept outright; upset at the bare notion of a relationship with such a clown
C18, P142
Heathcliff about Hareton
Heathcliff: “I’ve tied his tongue” observed Heathcliff
C21, P159
Heathcliff about Hareton
Heathcliff: “And he’ll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance. I’ve got him faster than his scoundrel of a father secured me”
C21, P159
