Wuthering Heights :: Essays Papers

WUTHERING HEIGHTS MAIN CHARACTERSCatherine Earnshaw She is the daughter of Mr. Earnshaw and the sister of Hindley. She is overly Heathcliffs foster sister. Heathcliff and Catherine argon in love, but she marries Edgar Linton instead. When Cathy died, she wanted some(prenominal) Heathcliff and Edgar to suffer because Edgar neer understood why she loved Heathcliff and Heathcliff because he never knew why she hook up with Edgar. Catherine Linton She is the daughter of the old Catherine and Edgar Linton. Her mother Catherine died shortly later on she was born. She married Linton Heathcliff and became Catherine Heathcliff. Then after her husbands death she married Harenton and became Catherine Earnshaw. Mr. Earnshaw He was a farmer and father of Hindley and Catherine. He is a kind- hearted human being who takes Heathcliff in after he show him lying on the street, although his family protested he still took him in. Edgar Linton He is Isabellas older brother, who marries Cather ine Earnshaw and is the father of there daughter, Catherine Linton. He is a gentle bred, refined man, a patient husband and attractive father.Ellen Dean Ellen is one of the main narrators. She has been a servant for the Lintons and Earnshaws all her life. She knows all of them better than any one else. People that are close to her call her Nelly.Frances Earnshaw She is Hindleys wife. She was a rather giddy woman. She displayed a great fear of death, which tells us why she died of tuberculosis.Harenton Earnshaw Harenton is the son of Frances and Hindley Earnshaw. He marries offspring Catherine and grows up with his Uncle Heathcliff his both mother and father die. He is ruff and uncultured having been kept from civilization from so long by Heathcliff.The Wuthering Heights belongs to Harenton still though Heathcliff runs the household.Hindley Earnshaw Is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw, he is also Catherines older brother. He becomes a violent alcoholic after his beloved wife Frances dies. Also Hindley never got along with Heathcliff because Hindley felt rejected from his fathers affection, because Heathcliff the favorite child of Mr. Earnshaw.Heathcliff He is taken in by Mr. Earnshaw and brocaded along with Catherine and Hindley. Catherine was a moving force in his life, and he detest all those who stood between him and his beloved Cathy. However, he was of unknown descendants and was found in Liverpool starving on the streets.