I first read this book a few years ago, though I’m not sure whether it was for high school or just for leisure. I remember loving this book and sympathizing with Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff because they couldn’t be together. I must’ve read this after senior year in high school, when I was still nursing a broken heart due to the loss of my first love, because after reading it for the second time now, I don’t really sympathize with the two characters so much anymore. In fact, I found them quite annoying and wanted to throw them both off a moor.

However, what makes this novel such a classic is the passion (or perhaps obsession) that’s consistent throughout the novel. Catherine and Heathcliff’s passionate and stubborn love is the impetus for what’s to happen later on. It impacts the actions and lives of those around them and those of the next generation.

Catherine Earnshaw is insufferable and reminds me of a friend who creates drama where there need not be. She comes around to her senses a couple of times, but if she made sense all of the time she wouldn’t have been perfect for Heathcliff, whose got his own issues and is insufferable in his own right. They are both selfish human beings, which makes me wonder what Edward Linton and Isabella Linton see in them both.

As much as I couldn’t stand these two main characters, I couldn’t help but be intrigued by them as well. I think this is what keeps readers attracted to the book because they are such “in your face’ type of characters that are hard to forget.

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