Dec 14, 2009

Wuthering Heights | Characters

Wuthering Heights is rich with several major characters. The female protagonist is Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of the owner of Wuthering Heights. The reader sees her at several different stages of her development. She was a pampered, willful young girl who befriended the young orphan boy her father brought home. Her strong attachment for the boy, Heathcliff, grows into a passionate almost obsessive love which she denies when she marries Edgar Linton, a pale, stable, but socially acceptable man. Although he is not as appealing as Heathcliff, the couple seems happy enough until...