Wuthering Heights

i am finally free of this book ! just kidding, but not really. a lot of time id no idea what was going on, but i'll try to analyse. what i got is that young heathcliff and catherine were girlbosses, and fuck everyone else. i think what they had was true love and they deserved to be together. i think after cathy (earnshaw/linton?) died, heathcliff became overcome with grief and later on, greed. i think he used his son to his advantage, encouraging him to marry catherine (heathcliff) for the inheritance. i really did like linton though, i thought he was such a sweet kid. and the way catherine described him was really lovely, too. i'm just gonna flat out say that i hated catherine heathcliff. she was this little pretentious brat who cried every time she didn't get her own way. i didn't like hareton at first, but he ended up becoming one of my favourites. catherine treated him like a literal science experiment, and she was so bipolar with with him. one moment she'd be like “ew don't touch me you're dirty asf” and the next she was like “i wanna be friends lol” like ??? it was weird, and i think hareton was treated badly because he liked catherine so much that he just gave into all of it. also the theme of death is so present in this fucking story LOL. you just kinda get used to all of the characters dying. at some points, i didn't even know WHO was dying, just that someone was gone. my favourite quote is probably, “it would degrade me to marry heathcliff, now; so 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. whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” it's such a beautiful love confession and i just think that those two were made for each other.