Discussing chapters twenty-four through twenty-eight this week reminded me of the 1997 classic american crime movie, Kiss the Girls. In Kiss the Girls a few girls from nearby Durham, North Carolina have disappeared. As a viewer I knew that they had been taken, captured, and put into a home like place where they were used for their talents. However, in Wuthering Heights Heathcliff traps Little Catherine. Much like in Kiss the Girls Heathcliff keeps Catherine for what he can use her for. Heathcliff wanted her to marry Linton so that he could inherit Thrushcross Grange when Edgar dies. The kidnapper in the movie keeps his victims in order to enjoy their talents. Now I am almost positive people will say the same about this blog they said about one of my previous ones, "why did you chose to compare these things when they really have nothing in common?" Except, in my head they do. The problem is getting it out. When I think Wuthering Heights, I immediately see a cavernous house. Yes, I know that is not actually what it is, but it's how I envision it. When I read these chapters my immediate thought was about the movie Kiss the Girls I don't know why, I had not seen the movie in YEARS. However, I can semi understand why now. When I first heard about the movie I dreamed the place that the kidnapper kept his victims as a massive house, colossal. Therefore, I realized the same house was the one I thought Wuthering Heights would look like, and that connection astounded me because of the similarities to the way that Heathcliff and the kidnapper had chosen their victims. I envisioned Catherine as one of those women, trapped away only to be used when needed/wanted. I felt bad for Catherine, while I really hadn't anytime before.
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