Emma’s Reviews > Wuthering Heights > Status Update

“‘Disturbed her [Catherine]? No! she has disturbed me, night and day, throughout eighteen years — incessantly — remorselessly — till yesternight — and yesternight, I was tranquil. I dreamt I was sleeping the last sleep, by that sleeper, with my heart stopped, and my cheek frozen against hers.’”

Ohhh poor Hareton. Poor Cathy. Poor Linton. No one’s having a good go of things

“‘You said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered /do/ haunt their murderers. I believe—I know that ghosts /have/ wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do /not/ leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I
/cannot/ live without my soul!’”

“‘I wish I were out of doors – I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free…’”

I really do like Heathcliff. I think he’s a very interesting, complex character. But the more I read, the more confused I am that anyone could read this book and interpret him as white. His race others him and greatly influences the extent of the abuse he receives. I really have come around to Jacob Elordi, but his casting (and the rest of the adaptation I’m sure) was very tone deaf.

“[Heathcliff] took a seat opposite Catherine, who kept her gaze fixed on him as if she feared he would vanish were she to remove it. He did not raise his to her, often; a quick glance now and then sufficed; but it flashed back, each time more confidently, the undisguised delight he drank from hers.”

“Nelly, I /am/ Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being…”

“‘But, Nelly, if I knocked him down twenty times, that wouldn't make him less handsome, or me more so. I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed, and behaved as well, and had a chance of being as rich as he will be!'”