for the spirit to soar in" (Sagar 121). Catherine says that there, on the moors, is the only place that she can feel free, feel truly alive. Even in death, she is neither buried with the Lintons, not the Earnshaws, but her body lies in the farthest corner near the farthest wall-as close as possible to the moors. Heathcliff's shared love of the moors and Catherine found him to be buried near both in the end-near his soul mate, his on true love, the love that haunted him throughout his life and near his refuge from the hauntings of his life. There are, however, very few scenes that take place out-of-doors. Catherine and Heathcliff, the characters whose relations to nature and the moors would seem to be the most important to the novel is never presented in the moors, together or apart, in either of the two major narrative layers(Homans 9).
In Cathy's diary the Lockwood found, the account of hers and Heathcliff's "naughty escapade under the milk maid's cloak," he leaves out any direct description of the actual happenings once they get outside. Contrasting the lack of detail about Heathcliff and Catherine out on the moors, the character who is most devoted to staying inside, Linton Heathcliff, is seen in t
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