Wuthering Heights Alternate Ending Essay

An Unfitting Ending As Lockwood leaves for Thrushcross Grange in the last pages of Wuthering Heights, he pauses for one last look at young Catherine and Hareton who will soon marry: “ ‘It is a poor conclusion, is it not,’ he observed, having brooded a while on the scene he had just witnessed. ‘An absurd termination to my violent exertions?” (322). The novel’s ending satisfies the dilemmas of the story, such as young Catherine’s future and the happiness of Heathcliff, and it fulfills the reader’s desire for a happy ending. Although the Earnshaw family is slowly dwindling due to incestuous marriages amongst kin, Catherine and Hareton are finally happy together and Heathcliff is finally in heaven with his beloved Catherine. There are many positive outcomes of the ending of Wuthering
come in!’ he sobbed. ‘Cathy do come. Oh do – once more! Oh! my heart’s darling, hear me this time – Catherine, at last!’ ” (28). It was obvious that Heathcliff would continue to be miserable until he was able to be with Catherine after his death. After a night on the moors that the reader does not know much about because Nelly was not there, Heathcliff seems to be unfazed by the idea of death: “ ‘He reentered, when the room was clear, in no degree calmer – the same unnatural – it was unnatural – appearance of joy under his black brows; the same bloodless hue: and his teeth visible, now and then, in a kind of smile’ ” (328). He refuses to eat for days and dies happily because he knows he will be reunited with his love, Catherine. Hareton and young Catherine finally were able to inherit both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange and be a happy couple. They planned to marry on the first day of the new year. At long last, the two manors are finally united and they will prosper at the hands of the loving couple. This may not last for many generations though because the inbreeding within the Earnshaw family will likely result in genetically weaker heirs for the