Catherine is waging the ultimate revenge on Morris as she did to her father on his deathbed. :) https://discord.gg/EnirehtakPrevious video: Minecraft THEME PARK! The return of Morris provided her with her own sense of closure. jerk that could manipulate naive women. Yet she allows herself the freedom to choose. I would like to pose to you, dear readers, the question of how you read the ending of the movie. That people like Baby were being experimented on?” Carole Lombard's beautifully haunting Life magazine cover, that I am honored to have in my personal magazine collection. In some ways she becomes so hard, like her father. lol But at the end, I do think that Morris fell in love with her and she knew it! Just throwing that out there. The play is being revived on Broadway right now, Iâd be curious to see what they do with it. When the safe house is attacked by mercenaries who kill almost all the operatives, Weston flees with Frost in his charge, and they end up on the run. @JMM – Thank you, someone said it! Aunt Penniman: “Can you be so cruel.” However, I have to wonder: is her ascending the stair supposed to be a proper ascension (meaning her “rising above” the past so to speak) or her finally deciding to stay tied to the Square? She was taught by masters to be this cruel. She stayed in the house almost waiting for Morris to slither back. It seems to reek with a paternalistic idea that a woman cannot be happy without a man by her side. But it was pretty brutal. Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Swapna Krishna writes about space, technology, and pop culture. Catherine House | Year Two: 43 428: Oct 13, 2020 03:33PM Literally Dead Bo...: Catherine House | Year One: 72 654: Oct 12, 2020 03:06PM Ladies of Horror ...: July 2020 Readalong: CATHERINE HOUSE by Elisabeth Thomas: 98 140: Jul 31, 2020 04:49PM Madison County NC...: Catherine House: 1 2: Jul 24, 2020 07:00AM I don’t know, I always love a love story and for this, I will always give Morris the benefit of doubt. He came to her. I definitely see her as cold and jaded. In 73 Seconds, season 12 premiere, Catherine got demoted to assistant supervisor under D.B. He realises that if that light dissapears, it’s the end. By this time in the movie, we have learned that Morris’ intentions are not honorable, as he deserted Catherine when her father threatened to disinherit her if they married. [They're using plasm to reanimate dead people to see how they operate. Holy emotional incest! Catherine initially says it is too late for apologies, but then becomes strangely seductive with him, accepting his proposal for marriage. Perfection!!! She has the power and a moment of revenge, but nothing more. And perhaps this is why it has stood the test of time so well, though people never seem to refer to it in the same vein as other, later movies that deal with the same themes. My interpretation of Catherine’s proclamation at the end, that she shall never embroider again, is that she has at long last proved her father wrong. I’m more towards the “liberated” side of the interpretation divide. I keep seeing Miss Haversham from Great Expectations – the old lady who was jilted in her youth and now wears a wedding gown yellowed with age and keeps rat-infested wedding cake on the table. The spell that both men cast on her, trapping her in their caging of her identity and who she is, through their deeds and words, has been broken. Catherine begins to get upset, and Eddie reminds her that he promised her mother as she was dying that he would watch over Catherine. This may be wishful thinking. She never was really loved by Morris–her money would have been loved. My reading on the ending is that Catherine has been so hardened by the constant abuse from her father and by the treachery of Morris that her only answer is to become jaded and cold, as they were. My reading on the ending is that Catherine has been so hardened by the constant abuse from her father and by the treachery of Morris that her only answer is to become jaded and cold, as they were. As y’all know if you’ve hung around here for a while, I’m always delighted when literary fiction includes speculative elements, as Catherine House does: Though it’s marketed as a Gothic novel for a litfic audience (which is accurate, btw! Well, I think the point is that the ending is layered. The dialogue between she and her father when she tells him the truth about himself (“If you couldn’t love me you could have at least allowed someone else to”) is brilliant. :) https://discord.gg/EnirehtakPrevious video: Tower Makeover! The final scene –Catherine is wearing white (bridal). I love your commentary about the faces. Oy! We only get Catherine’s interpretation of the situation. I found this for you regarding the novel: In the novel, we learn that after this tragedy, as the years pass, she becomes quite a figure, and that she goes in for charity workâhospitals and orphanages and all sorts of institutions. For me itâs a story of the loss of innocence, finding trust in self and facing the truth about the world and oneself. I find it disturbing. Remember when the maid compliment her at the end, but Catherine took it as only a ploy to take an early stroll that hot night and explained that the maid needn’t say nice things just to be able to leave because she’s just as free in that house as Catherine, herself, is? Perhaps it’s the phrase “it’s not complete, but it’s certainly a good one (life)” that sparks this train of thought, but just hear me out: The fact that Morris is the most action Catherine has ever gotten in her life and the rigid standards of society she still has to hold herself as a rich heiress (regardless of whether she has liberated herself or not), seems to indicated that maybe, perhaps in this day and age… The Heiress could be due for an erotic re-telling or at least a revamp… ? I love what you say about the costumes. That first ascent is clearly when the transformation began. For Ines, Catherine is the closest thing to a home she’s ever had, and her serious, timid roommate, Baby, soon becomes an unlikely friend. The St Catherine's House Index or General Register Office Index is the index to 98% of births, marriages, and deaths in England & Wales since July 1837 until 2009. Subscribe to be part of the Enirehtaks! “This will soon be MINE!” It’s not like he deserved any better than she gave him. (What did Jesus say about forgiveness?) Maybe she’ll even find love that way, or at the very least make friends. Maybe in retrospect, her father was right (in her head). She chose to accept who she is to keep from being hurt or proven wrong, so to speak. But now, finally, she has perfected another skill. At first devastated and hurt. Olivia de Havillandâs Oscar is richly deserved. Not gonna happen. Miniver.". Situated in the popular market town of Frome, Catherine House is a purpose-built care home offering residential care, nursing care, respite care and dementia care. She balked against the societal conventions by being willing to elope, so had a brave current running through her only to be dashed by the cruelty once again of a man. She will no longer morn the loss-as his return only confirms his mercenary intent. I think what most surprised me about the ending was that she didn’t *shoot* him….I was expecting her to have enough “passion” left to take a true payment for the grief he’d caused. I guess the question is whether or not she will actually have happiness with Morris after what he did to her. I think the light symbolises hope (for money, love…) and the manner he watches his hope die slowly, as Catherine climbs the stais with the light, gets him desperate. There are scenes in the novel between them which perfectly capture, almost note for note, scenes between my father and brother which I witnessed growing up. He tells Catherine that she is a “baby” and doesn’t “doesn’t understand these things.” Eddie calls for his wife, Beatrice, and says that her cousins have arrived from Italy.Beatrice enters and is surprised that they have come early. I love this movie. CATHERINE HOUSE. Was she triumphant? If one were to read her act as empowerment . Hell, he walked out of there with some nice jewelry; which will probably keep him for a few months – it’s not like the guy is capable of living an honest life, after all. I love this movie and just discovered this discussion. I like to think that IF the right man had come along her father would have seen it and approved, but he did try to save her from being totally ruined by a fortune hunter like Morris. Catherine Sloper ascends the stairs in the final scene, leaving fortune-hunter Morris Townsend banging on the door. Almost everything about her seems to have changed after that scene: Her body language (now coolly poised where once she was cringing and awkward), her voice (once high and beseeching, now much more flat, more malleable and apt to take on a note of command, derision, or seductiveness), her attitude (usually nervously attentive and eager to please, now merely attentive and neutral, almost mercurial depending on who she speaks to; note that the only thing that seems to whip her into a passion post-desertion is her father and Morris, the two men to have wronged her the most), etc. Almost like snapshots in time. The same silly phrases. I haven’t read through all of the comments, but it seems as if I might be alone in thinking that Catherine is planning to kill herself. Again, I could be wrong. I loved the ending and thought it a triumph for Catherine. [she didn't escape. Reader Q&A, David has autism, and he has to go to occupational therapy, or OT. His “best” was an effort to turn her into the image of his dead wife. They agree to marry, and Morris says he will come for her at 9. I wish there were a sequel where one extraordinary human being we’re able to reach into Catherine’s cold and shriveled heart and pull her back into the light. Whatever oneâs interpretation, it just goes to show what a great movie âThe Heiressâ is that it continues to rouse such conversation after all this time! How did we all of a sudden jump to that conclusion? Rules starts off with Catherine, a 12-year-old girl, trying to drag her brother, David, to the car. When the Lintons visit, Hindley and Edgar make fun of Heathcliff and a fight ensues. She barely passed high school after getting pulled into a spiral of drugs, parties and dissipation. Well, he came to the wrong house. You’re totally right about Catherine when she gets to the top of the stairs. I’ve read everyone else’s thoughts and I do believe Katherine DID change after her father’s death….but wouldn’t it be a nice thought if she had taken Morris when he came back and they lived happily every after? Again. And every time I watch it, that part affects me. To me that means she’s leaving behind her old life. "Catherine House is a novel that lingers long after the final page. Her father won. Says it all! The ascent of the staircase is also pretty ambiguous. Why not give Morris the benefit of the doubt? Very interesting insight into Catherine! The goodness of an outsider towards those who see her as a “giver.” Not gonna happen. She wanted to put that part of her past behind her and, although she was embittered by the events, she wouldnât let them truly change who she was.