In Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Catherine and Heathcliff never enjoy happiness in each other's arms because she refuses to marry a lowly gypsy. Her aristocratic views on marriage would not allow her to wed someone below her social status. Her decision was to marry Edgar Linton who is the ideal husband: the rich, noble, light hair, fair skinned, privileged gentleman. Catherine dies regretting forsaking Heathcliff's passionate love for her. She cannot repent for her sins, but the errors of the first generation are redeemed in the second specifically through her daughter Cathy Linton. The two have very similar traits and are faced with similar obstacles, but the second generation is able to enact the life that should have been Catherine's. Cathy Linton is Catherine Earnshaw reborn, without the tragic flaws that ruined her the first time.
             Cathy is a parallel, though toned-down, version of her mother. Both find Penistone Craggs an intriguing place and in their youths, would steal away whenever they get the chance. Cathy was more level-headed that her mother ever was. Cathy is never found soaking wet from the rain nor does she ever throw temper tantrums like Catherine does. Cathy is certainly just as brave and firm in her convictions.. She stands up to Heathcliff's villainy as much as she can and Catherine rebels against anyone who stands in her way since she is the mistress of the household. Cathy has Catherine's strengths, but lacks most of her mother's flaws such as an ungovernable temper and spiteful tendencies. On the other hand, Cathy, lacking her mother's fierceness, is incapable of loving anyone as passionately as Catherine loves Heathcliff.
             Catherine and Cathy are both adventurous and drawn to the unknown, but their curiosity proves to be their downfall. If Catherine and Heathcliff had never wandered to the Lintons, she would never have been attacked by the dogs p...