Yxamix’s Reviews > Wuthering Heights > Status Update

I have one thing in mind when I think about this book—self sustaining destruction.

For a minute I believed Catherine was feeling remorse for her ways as death was confirmed for her, but no—she was just as insufferable or even more at death’s door. It interests me that Heathcliff is aware of her wickedness and fault yet still calls her upon him.
She was unbearable and now I believe Heathcliff will become more in her stead.
How dismal.

Oh Heathcliff…As you rebuke your wife you married solely for the single minded purpose of tormenting her, all I could think of was how ironic it was for you to be calling her disgraceful, abject, and everything more—whilst being completely blind of how everything he accused her of perfectly maps on to himself.

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

I can see where the hate for Heathcliff comes from. Isabella doesn’t deserve this. The poor woman. To think she’ll suffer for what Catherine genuinely called upon herself.

The more I read this book, the more insufferable Catherine is becoming to me. The way she speaks about Edgar is so ungrateful, she married him for his wealth to supply her vices, yet she has the audacity to call him unwanted and unworthy and whatnot. And then has the audacity to deny any accountability for the drama and consequences SHE INSTIGATED.

I know she’s going to die and honestly I’m just waiting for it.

Honestly with how far I’ve gotten into this book there’s a just two main questions I’ve got circling my head. Them being: Where the hell did Heathcliff go for 3 years??? Also why the hell does everyone just flounder against Catherine’s whims? She’s insufferable and I don’t understand why no one has the mind to opt out of her nonsense.

The story of Heathcliff’s introduction makes me perplexed. I wonder why Mr Earnshaw chose someone he considered a ‘thing’ to be his favourite. It feels like an oxymoron. Heathcliff hadn’t even been thought of as a person to begin with but he roused the most importance in Mr Earnshaw beyond his own children. Was this due to religion or some deeper family matter?

I am rather confused by the characterisation of the characters. Sometimes so much is said I can’t tell who is saying what. And also—Heathcliff just seems rather strange. Unpleasant even. I don’t get why he would allow his tenant to be treated like this, I hope it’s explained.

I’m glad Zillah atleast had some sense of compassion towards Mr Lockwood.

I've just started this book and it's a bit difficult to grasp as the vocabulary used is beyond my comprehension at times. I'm finding it difficult to make a coherent image in my head with things so l need to look up things which break my flow reading.

But—for the most part what I understood of the first chapter is Heathcliff is being introduced via his tenant and he is being characterised as a 'refined' anomaly.