Sammendrag av Wuthering Heights, Chapter 21

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1. Reports from the Heights describe Linton’s poor health, demanding habits, and isolation before Cathy reaches sixteen.
2. Cathy’s birthday walk brings her to Heathcliff, who invites her home and privately reveals his marriage plan to Ellen.
3. Cathy reunites affectionately with Linton, and they mock Hareton’s inability to read while Heathcliff boasts about degrading him.
4. Edgar explains Heathcliff’s cruelty and forbids contact, but Cathy secretly begins exchanging letters with Linton through a milk boy.
5. Ellen discovers the correspondence, burns the letters after extracting Cathy’s promise to stop, and tells Linton to send no more.

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Heathcliff states his plan directly to Ellen. His concern with inheritance gives the affectionate reunion a purpose Cathy does not understand.

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