Hindley's wife, Frances, lives in Wuthering Heights for a short time: "[Frances's] affection soon grew weary, however, and when she grew peevish, Hindley became tyrannical” (Bronte 37). Frances was kind at the beginning of her stay at Wuthering Heights, but “got tired very quickly” as the estate was transforming her. When Frances becomes irritable, this represents the changes being forced upon her. Anyone would get annoyed if they changed slowly. Hindley, noticing this change, “became tyrannical” in an attempt to stop the change; however, Hindley's transformation aided the transformations caused by Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff has lived in Wuthering Heights for several years now and has been transformed into an almost unrecognizable creature of darkness: "[Heathcliff] seized [Cathy] with his free hand, and, pulling her onto his knee, administered to her with the other a shower of slaps on both sides of the head” (Bronte 207). The “freed hand” shows the freedom taken away from Cathy by Heathcliff. Heathcliff gives “slaps on both sides” of Cathy’s head, showing Cathy’s helplessness in the face of the evil. Heathcliff's calmly and quickly doled out physical abuse of women is shocking to readers as it is a line that should not be crossed