Read the following excerpt from when Catherine has secluded herself in her room after the fight with Edgar. Then, considering specific textual details in the excerpt, analyze how the author uses the characters to challenge and/or confirm gender roles and expectations. Write a developed paragraph that contains a claim, evidence, and commentary to establish and support your line of reasoning. Shake your head as you will, Nelly, you have helped to unsettle me! You should have spoken to Edgar, indeed you should, and compelled him to leave me quiet! Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills. Open the window again wide: fasten it open! Quick, why don't you move?'

'Because I won't give you your death of cold,' I answered.

'You won't give me a chance of life, you mean,' she said, sullenly. 'However, I'm not helpless yet; I'll open it myself.'