Now I know that Joseph was the fuel to an already blazing fire. He was also someone hungry for validation, and bitter to his damned core. It made him feel so good to have control over someone who owns the mansion and family.

But his “villain entrance” was so well written. A quiet, dramatic, evil whisper in the dark. It’s like he has his own lore. I like how corrupted—yet self-righteous—he is written.

Oh, now I got to Cathy’s part. And my, my… She was just a child. Nelly certainly is an unreliable narrator. She did not understand children. Cathy was just being a child—a very bratty & spoiled one—but she wasn’t evil.

However, yes, due to her own father’s physical abuse and probably also her mother’s coldness, she had only known such. She thought slapping and ordering people like slaves are alright (in her play pretend to be a mistress).

It is also oh sooooo interesting how we see Heathcliff had fallen in love with her since then—doing ANYTHING…FOR…HER… Whilst picking & choosing what he’d do for Mr. Earnshaw (which made his twisted mind grew jealous over his own baby daughter). And we witnessed this from the point of view of someone who DIDN’T realize it, as she casually spitting a very important detail of this family’s dynamic! What an unusual (fresh) writing style.

Cathy was so deprived of love and softness, that her personal joy came from messing with people. But she knew that what she did was bad, so she apologized at night—only to be met with a jealous, dying father.