riousness….But she differs from her mother also: as her relationship to Linton indicates, she is open to others, receptive to their needs”(Shapiro, 5-6). Additionally, “Cathy’s marriage to Hareton is in a sense a revision of her mother’s unsuccessful marriage to Edgar Linton…In young Cathy, Bronte gives us a woman whose acquired humility, patience, and affection yield what promises to be a satisfying marriage and a mutual broadening of experience”(Federico, 2). Cathy separates herself from her mother most noticeably with maturity level. “Catherine, especially, is not so much struggling to grow up as she is struggling not to”(1). The generations of this book hold few similarities, serving as contrasts to each other as a way to trace the progression through the families. Even though few traits passed down from parents to their children, the children still fed off of parental influence, most in an indirect way. The second generation struggles to understand the passionate hatred their parents left to them. They are much more pacific than their parents were, and undeserving of the treatment they received merely for living. Ultimately, the kids paid the price for their parents’ misdeeds in life, all of them at one time falling under the cruel hands of Heathcliff, which was the uniting factor among the second generation. ...
