"Cliff Notes - Wuthering Heights" - читать интересную книгу автора (Cliff Notes)

looks and money. Still, he or she may lack the ability to
understand one's own struggles and fears.

Edgar at times does seem to lack this crucial understanding.
Heathcliff speaks scornfully of leaving an ill Cathy to Edgar's
"duty" and "humanity." You get the impression that Edgar isn't
capable of the tumultuous passion that grips his rival.

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS: ISABELLA LINTON, LATER MRS.
HEATHCLIFF

You don't see much of Isabella before she becomes infatuated
with Heathcliff, and until then you assume she's much like her
brother Edgar. When Ellen goes to live at Thrushcross Grange
she compares Isabella and Edgar to a honeysuckle bush embracing
a thorn (Cathy). Ellen also says that Isabella is "a charming
lady of eighteen; infantile in manners, though possessed of keen
wit, keen feelings, and a keen temper, too, if irritated."

A shallow, weak creature, Isabella deceives herself into
believing that Heathcliff loves her, and she marries him despite
Edgar's warnings. After their marriage, when Heathcliff
persecutes her, she exhibits behavior decidedly unlike the usual
Thrushcross Grange qualities associated with Edgar; she rants
and raves and speaks as fondly of revenge as does Heathcliff.
Finally, when she can stand his abuse no longer, she leavesHeathcliff, displaying an unexpected strength of character, and
goes off to a suburb near London to have her baby by herself.

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS: HARETON EARNSHAW

Hindley's son Hareton, the young Cathy, and Linton Heathcliff
are often considered "echoes" of Heathcliff, the older Cathy,
and Edgar Linton, respectively. Certainly Hareton has some
Heathcliff-like qualities. He is rough, strong, foul-mouthed,
brave, bad-tempered. Heathcliff himself compares his childhood
to Hareton's and finds much in the boy to admire.

Hareton is a more moderate character than Heathcliff. He
loves Heathcliff and defends him against Cathy's attacks.
Hareton's love for the young Cathy, although strong, is not like
Heathcliff's wild, all-consuming passion for her mother.

What are you to make of this moderation? You can see Hareton
as a pale, diminished Heathcliff, a person who lacks
Heathcliff's energy, craftiness, and commanding presence. Or
you can see him as one of the few people in the novel who have
learned to love. In the last scenes he and the young Cathy
tease, not torment, each other. Perhaps it is the young lovers'