In the book Cathy starts to see Heatcliffe as beneath her and wants to marry Edgar, but they tried to make it out that Heathcliffe went away just as she was changing her mind. They tried to make her more helpless, when really Cathy just messes everyone around and can't decide what she wants or wants a bit of everything.
shareI had a similar thought whilst watching it...
When I read the book, I really got a sense of not actually liking Catherine much because she seemed to mess both Heathcliff and Edgar about. I think the adaptation was created from a much more sympathetic perspective of her personality, which I didn't necessarily like.
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I agree with you. I rather liked this adaptation. I loved Kathy's strong character, also that scene in the parlor when Heathcliff made the remark about how sometimes women fall for the most unlikely characters. Besides, what was she to do? He had been gone for three years, without a single word.
I live in a glass house, ergo, I throw no stones.
I agree that Cathy was much more of a sympathetic character than I remember her. When I read the book I remember thinking that actually Cathy was a little bitch and Heathcliff was pretty horrible too...I still loved them though. It would probably have been too hard for people who have never read the book to empathise and like the characters if they had stuck to the book.
shareI have never read the book but when i was watching the movie i absolutely hated Cathy. i was actually rooting for her to die, that was how much i could not stand her. it really seemed to me that they portrayed her as the entire problem. i mean it seemed like Heathcliff had some issues going on (that whole head banging scene looked really psychotic to me), but it seemed like Cathy and what seemed to be her idea that she could have both men without either of them being mad really just made him worse. and really, he gave her so many chances to leave with him before he left, she only has herself to blame for him leaving. so i guess i'm in the minority here, but i did not find Cathy a sympathetic character at all. Heathcliff was much more sympathetic than Cathy was.
shareI thought the opposite - they really brought out what a selfish bitch Cathy was. She wanted Edgar and Heathcliff at once, and when she couldn't have that she wanted to stop Heathcliff from being with anyone else. (That said, Isabella was just a poor pawn in his battle for revenge with Edgar Linton, in the book as in this adaptation).
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I haven't read the book. It is on my list. However, watching this made me think she was a selfish cow, torturing Edgar who was a really nice man who truly loved her and was good to her and pretty much gave her whatever she wanted but I really despised Heathcliff. He was treated terribly by his adopted brother. Why then make Cathy suffer, and if he really loved her, why torture her daughter? I mean, this was her daughter, I don't care if she was also Edgar's daughter. Cathy married Edgar, Edgar didn't "steal" Cathy from Heathcliff, it was her moneygrubbing decision to marry him instead of Heathcliff. I have never seen someone hurt so many many people who had so little to do with anything directly related to an original slight. Heathcliff even hurt people who he should have had the balls to protect (like Linton), just to hurt other innocent people like Cathy (jr.) just to get at other people who indirectly had no blame (Edgar), just to hurt Cathy (who was dead). He was a nasty piece of work. The only person I think he really had a real score to settle with was Hindley, now he was downright cruel to Heathcliff. To do what he did to Isabella (and then to Linton), just to hurt Cathy. Heathcliff is 1000 times more twisted, broken, damaged, mean, selfish, arrogant and loathsome than she is.
Also, what I want to know is, why did Cathy stay with Edgar after Heathcliff returned (before the pregnancy)? Was it just because of the scandal? I mean, didn't Edgar know she loved Heathcliff? Heathcliff had plenty of money, they could have just run off and went to Europe. They had no family to speak of other than her brother. One thing this production is not clear on is that Cathy does offer to be lovers, he rejects her outright, but then later on you can't hardly get him ot of the house as he wants to (legitimately) be with her all the time. It seems clear to me he wouldn't have cared that she'd been with Edgar, her legal husband, he would have just been so happy to have laid with her at any time or place, his "true love". Poor writing?
To each their own...opinion
Cathy stayed with Edgar because she felt guilt. She knew Edgar would do anything in the world for her. And she felt that she could keep her position in society. Heathcliff, while wealthy, was not "old money". He gained his wealth through shady means. She just wanted to have her cake and eat it too.
As for Heathcliff, the thought of Cathy sleeping with Edgar sent him into a tailspin as you can see in this adaptation. He viewed her as tainted when she admitted she had "laid" with her husband. So at that point, running off with her was the last thing he wanted. Heathcliff was angry at her and wanted revenge.
I'm with you, I didn't like her in the movie (this bitch has Tom Hardy and Andrew Lincoln, what is she complaining about?). She was even more unlikable in the book? It has been a REALLLY long time since studying this book in school and even then I did not read it I just read a summary and learned enough to pass the test. If she was harder to like in the book than in this I think I will skip that read.
shareI'm with you, I didn't like her in the movie (this bitch has Tom Hardy and Andrew Lincoln, what is she complaining about?).
THIS!
Look, it was in a barn. People do a lot of stupid things in barns.
I think all of the movie versions I've seen so far depict her as likable. In the book, she is barely tolerable before her death.
That was very annoying to see.
Heathcliff was also way more likable here than he was in the book.
Actually he was way to likable here.
And hatted the way the filmed Cathy's death here, they made it look like Cathy and Heathcliff had s peaceful goodbye when their last moments together was a very tormented scene.
Cathy Blaming Heathcliff and Edgar for her illness and latter Heathcliff telling her that can't forgive the woman who stole his heart, and here this was so toned down, this was just like Satine from Moulin Rouge dying in Christian's arms.