• Heathcliff
• Edgar
• Conflicted loyalties between the two men
“he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am” (pg. 82)
“he will be rich, and I shall like to be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood...I should only pity him–hate him perhaps, if he were ugly and a clown” (pg. 80)
“The place of Catherine’s interment, to the surprise of the villagers, was neither in the chapel, under the carved monument of the Lintons, nor yet by the tombs of her own relations, outside. It was dug on a green slope in a corner of the kirkyard” (pg. 165)
"My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath--a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind--not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being" (pg. 84)
Catherine Linton nee Earnshaw
Relationships: Thrushcross Grange
Isabella Linton
- sister-in-law
- Linton falls in love with Heathcliff
Catherine Linton
- daughter
- strong resemblance
- character
- physical traits
- names
• Social ambition
- “upgrading” her social status
• Attain the love of the two men of her life
- Get both men to tolerate and accept each other
“Edgar must shake of his antipathy, and tolerate him, at least” (pg. 83)
“Well, if I cannot keep Heathcliff for my friend–if Edgar will be mean and jealous, I’ll try to break their hearts by breaking my own.” (pg. 116)
Relationships: Wuthering Heights
Nelly (Ellen) Dean
- servant/companion
- discussion of feelings, actions, thoughts
- advice
Hareton
- nephew
- resemblance to Catherine (facial)