"Here was the result of Catalina's daydreams. Here was her fairytale. It amounted to a stilted marriage that, coupled with her sickness and mental tribulations, must place an exhausting burden on her shoulders." something I've noticed, and initially found rather silly, is how blatant the Gothic nods of this novel are: the title itself, the mentions of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre in correlation to the events of the book, the use of the word Gothic to describe this ridiculous rotting house transported to rural Mexico from Victorian England by a family of ridiculous rich English people, but after this chapter I wonder if this story is meant to be a cautionary tale to people (in particular young women) who romanticize the Gothic aesthetic and heroes to an extent that they miss the actual themes of Gothic novels. with the blatant callbacks to Gothic elements and stories that get misread -cough- by Emerald Fennell -cough-, the author might be making it equally blatant that that is not the ideal to be striving for also Virgil is trying to be sympathetic but I do not trust him. gaslighters, this entire family (except Francis) (I hope)