Catherine's Idol in the novel Wuthering Heights

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…gs her peace when she really begins to lose her mind at the Grange. Even Catherine's true love, Heathcliff, doesn't bring her the happiness that she gets from Wuthering Heights. It is the only thing in her life that she can look to and always know that it will be there. That is why she is buried on the moors around Wuthering Heights. She will remain there forever because it is her only true idol.