Another paragraph

Here is another paragraph from my "Wuthering Heights" paper (I really need to think of a title . . .) :

Catherine's most destructive personality trait was almost certainly her egocentricity. Although there are many instances of her self-centeredness throughout the story, one of the best examples may be found when Catherine tells Nelly that she has decided to marry Edgar Linton. When Nelly asks Catherine why she loves Edgar, Catherine gives the very telling answers of, "Because he loves me" (Bronte 77) and, "[H]e will be rich, and I shall like to be the greatest woman in the neighborhood, and I shall be proud of having such a husband" (Bronte 78). This, along with Catherine's admittance that she also loves Heathcliff, makes it quite obvious that Catherine is marrying Edgar for very selfish reasons. It is this choice that brings multiple repercussions to the Linton family. First, because Heathcliff flees into a storm during Catherine's announcement to Nelly that she is to marry Edgar, Catherine searches for him outdoors and falls ill. It is when Mr. and Mrs. Linton take Catherine into the Grange that they, too, become sick and pass away. Catherine marrying Edgar was also detrimental to Edgar himself; he had "a deep-rooted fear of ruffling her humor" (Bronte 91) even in the happiest times of their marriage. Not to mention the appalling displays from Catherine after Heathcliff's return: locking the two in the room together, insisting that they part friends or come to blows, and "dashing her head against the arm of the sofa, and grinding her teeth" (Bronte 118), for instance. Even Isabella Linton is not immune from Catherine's narcissism--it is to spite Catherine that Heathcliff ever marries Isabella in the first place, and this marriage is at least as disastrous as Edgar and Catherine's. As Marianne Thormahlen stated, "It is [Catherine's] self-love that sets the disastrous chain of events in motion. Catherine dies half-way through the book, but not before she has indirectly killed her benefactors, the Linton parents; destroyed the lives of the two men who love her; [and] brought ruin and misery to her sister-in-law" (187).