Wuthering Heights, sammanfattning av Chapter 34

Handling

1. Heathcliff avoids meals and company, returns excited from a night outside, and seems absorbed in something others cannot see.
2. He denies deliberately refusing food, rejects religious advice, and gives Nelly instructions for his burial.
3. After Heathcliff refuses the doctor, Nelly finds him dead beside an open window in his soaked bed.
4. Hareton mourns deeply, and Heathcliff receives the burial he requests.
5. Nelly recounts reported ghost sightings and announces Catherine and Hareton’s planned marriage and move to the Grange.
6. Lockwood leaves the returning couple, visits the three graves, and questions the idea that their occupants lack peace.

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Mr. Heathcliff describes his happiness as physically destructive yet incomplete. This explains his own understanding of the agitation that accompanies his decline.

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