Nelly tells us of the tentative beginning of Catherine and Hareton’s friendship, and how Heathcliff and Joseph reacted to it. She describes how Heathcliff’s desire for revenge dwindled, and his growing fixation with dying so that he may be reunited with Cathy.
Chapter Twenty
Heathcliff’s obsession with dying grows. His manic joyfulness disturbs a superstitious Nelly, and when he tells her of his plans to make out a will, she asks him to repent and turn to God. He says he will return to haunt her if she doesn’t bury him according to his wishes; two days later she finds him dead. Only Hareton mourns his loss, and we are told of the local legend that their ghosts walk the moors together. The unimaginative Lockwood is unable to imagine anything of the sort.