How could HC have despised young Cathy so much?

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When he so deeply loved her mother.

That's the one thing I can't quite get my brain wrapped around. I mean, he never blamed her for Catherine's death so that angle wasn't entered. I guess it's just because of her father being Edgar... but still, I think anyone who was so crazy over her mom would not despise and humiliate and physically harm a daughter.
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**queenofmycastle** · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:30 am Post subject:

I was thinking about this topic earlier. This may be a really bad analogy but...here it goes...HC softens toward Hareton because he looks so much like his beloved Catherine. HC hates young Cathy because she looks like her father but she has her mother's eyes. I can't quite wrap my brain around what I'm trying to articulate but I keep thinking about the eyes being the window to one's soul. He feels like looking into young Cathy's eyes, he's seeing Catherine's soul but it's lost to him. And this is a real stretch, but I was thinking about HP, of all things. Snape hated Harry because he looked like his father....yet he couldn't help being drawn to him because Harry had his mother's eyes....Right before Snape dies, he asks Harry to "look at me". Maybe HC felt like it would be a sign of weakness to display that sort of need. This probably makes no sense to anyone else but me. Embarassed

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**Kel** · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:16 am Post subject:

Maybe it could be because everytime he looks at young Cathy, he thinks to himself she should be my children, not Edgar's. He wishs with all his heart that Cathy was his and cant stand to think that another man marry his love, & fathered a child that should have been his. Because he hated Edgar some much the hate moved form father to daughter. Just a few thoughts.
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**CaliCat** · Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:27 am Post subject:

At first, I thought that HC wanted to make Catherine miserable because he hated Edgar so much, and that was the one thing that Edgar loved...But after he died, HC was still a miserable JA, so I don't know... I think maybe part of the reason he hated Catherine is that she was born on the same day Cathy died...She was the only thing left to show of Edgar and Cathy's love. A constant reminder of what HC could never have...
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**lynds** · Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject:

I think you are right. The main reason he hated Catherine was because she supposedly pushed Cahty toward death. He even tells Catherine that her own father Linton despises her because of this (though it isn't true). I also think that he hates Linton so much that he wants to make Catherine miserable because somehow he thinks that will hurt Linton. Somewhere toward the end of the book he tells Nelly that he dosn't want either Catherine or Hearton to be happy because they are both the children of his sworn ememies.
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