Abstract
The second Catherine, though scarcely a popular figure with readers of Wuthering Heights down the years, may nevertheless be said to deserve critical attention for the skill with which she is presented in the novel. We note, for example, the extraordinary realism of her portrayal as someone conspicuous in her early adolescence for her clannishness and her stupidity, and that to such an extent as to make us perhaps all too easily inclined to overlook the virtues she is patently endowed with. Especially memorable in this respect is not only the remarkable courage she exhibits in sometimes very restrictive circumstances, but also the fact that her halting growth to maturity seems inextricably bound up with her strongly moral disposition and her exceptional capacity for love, informed as these virtues doubtless are by that essential fearlessness which Lockwood comes to recognize in her by the end of his narrative.
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