of illness. Death was the only thing that brought her any relief from her suffering, and the sun shining from the heavens expressed the way she was finally free from pain. Years later, the young Cathy is grown and marries Heathcliffs son, Linton, who soon dies. She later falls in love with Hareton Earnshaw, who returns her love, and in this she finds happiness that her mother was never able to know. Heathcliff is angered, but one night he walks out of the house, and when he returns, his normally bitter countenance has changed to one of a strange happiness. Warm, sunny spring days with bright blue skies follow his return for four days in which he refuses to eat anything and locks himself in his room. Then the weather changed. The next evening, it rained all night and into the morning. Nelly, taking a walk around the yard, noticed that Heathcliffs window was open and the rain was pouring in. The days leading to Heathcliffs death, he finally managed to make some peace with himself and the world, as Cathy had in her death. But his changing mood and changed behavior could not make him a better person than he always had been. He died that night with a frightful, life-like gaze of exultation...and his parted lips, and sharp white teeth sneered too (365). It is difficult to know what Heathcliff was thinking in his final moments. While her death was surrounded by sunshine, he died during a night of merciless rain. Despite her fits of temper and selfishness, Catherine was always a warm-hearted person deep down, as shown by the way she would stay to console people after hurting their feelings when she was a child. But Heathcliffs only expression of any compassion was toward Catherine; otherwise, he was as cold as the rain that soaked his lifeless corpse. The weather present at his death served as a fitting end to his tortured life. Emily Bronte makes good use of the weather in important parts of Wuthering Heights. Th...
