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Here's the next paragraph from my "Wuthering Heights" essay. (By the way, if anyone reads these and thinks, "Geez, she has crappy introductions and conclusions to her paragraphs," they are right. I'm bad at coming up with those, which is why I haven't done it yet in any of the paragraphs I've posted. I promise I will fix them all, although I can't guarantee they'll be a ton better.)

Catherine's love for Heatcliff serves him better in death than while she was living. "In Catherine's eyes, there is no possibility of abandoning Heathcliff, because the foundation of their bond is insensible to empirical reversals. She can treat him badly without alienating him; she even has to treat him badly in order to demonstrate the indissoluble nature of their love" (Phillips 99). Perhaps Catherine's poor treatment of Heathcliff could have been overlooked if she had shown consistent love to him as well, but she does not even give Heathcliff preference over a man that she married primarily for his status. The only time in her adulthood that she expresses love to Heathcliff is just before she dies, and even this experience is tainted for Heathcliff by his knowledge that she has been "cruel and false" (Bronte 159) to him for years. It is only in her death that Catherine gives Heathcliff hope (probably false, but hope nonetheless) that she would have chosen him over Edgar at last, had she survived. It also seems that Catherine spends more time with Heathcliff with her haunting than she spent with him in her adult life. Though she never visually appears to Heathcliff, she does, at least in part, visit him "night and day, through eighteen years--incessantly" (Bronte 278). In short, Heathcliff has a much stronger belief in Catherine's love for him in the years after her death than he ever did while she was living.