Wuthering Heights: Love Story

"She was much too fond of Heathcliff. The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him: yet she got chided more than any of us on his account" (42).

I'm starting to see why this book is classified as a love story. So while Hindley hates his new sibling Heathcliff, Catherine ends up falling in love with him. I find this creepy because technically Heathcliff is her adopted sibling and she's obsessed with him so it's a little bit weird. Nonetheless, Heathcliff also seems to feel the same way toward Catherine. However, once Catherine is held at Thrushcross Grange, she meets Edgar Linton, and she starts to like him as well. Heathcliff finds out about Edgar and he is jealous. He says to Mrs. Dean, "If I knocked him down twenty times, that wouldn't make him less handsome or me more so. I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed and behaved as well and had a chance of being as rich as he will be!" (56) Edgar is rich and good-looking so naturally Heathcliff feels like he could never compare. And now that Catherine seems to like both Edgar and Heathcliff there will be conflict between these people as well. There seems to be a love triangle going on.