Hindley and his wife Frances are child-like (1)
‘like two babies, kissing and talking nonsense by the hour’
Hindley wants to hurt his own son (1)
‘As sure as I’m living, I’ll break the brat’s neck’
Hindley’s eyes compared to Catherine’s (1)
‘his eyes, too, were like a ghostly Catherine’s, with all their beauty annihilated’
Hindley creates a mess in his violent rage (1)
‘the valances hung in festoons, wrenched from their rings’
Hindley becomes tyrannical after his wife Frances dies (1)
execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation