Wuthering Heights
The old strange man, the hero of this book as well, drives my attention first, by showing his indifference and science.Then I gue something must happened to him and the curiosity urged me went through the book to found the answer.
Mr.Lock wood invited his landlord, Mr.Heathcliff.Because of the bad weather, he had to stay here that night.And this is how the story really began.In the room he was arranged to sleep, he found a dairy written by a Catherine Earnshaw.That is not strange.What frightened me was that he heard someone knock on the window, and when he stretched out my hand towards the branch outside, his fingers closed around a small，ice－cold hand! When I read those lines, I was nerves, gueing what would happen later.Then it continued, “It held my hand tightly, and a voice cried sadly, „Let me in！Let me in!‟ ” Wasn‟t it terrifying? I thought so.And also, it succeeded to get all my attention.I almost thought it was truly happened, but later it was proved a dream, a horrible dream.Anyway, the story was to display.
Heathcliff was adopted by Mr.Earnshaw when he was a little boy, abandoned by his parents.Gradually, Catherine and He became great friends, but Hindley hated him.He would not mi any chance to tease him.Heathciff and Catherine always played together and behaved wildly.The book didn‟t say that they fell in love with each other, but from many respects, we can sense their special relationship.Although they were often scolded by her brother after her father died, they felt happy.However, everything changed after Catherine was accidentally bit by Mr.Linton‟s dog.Edgar Linton is the master of Thrushcro Grange.Then Catherine stayed with Linton‟s family for five weeks, after which she began to change.When she returned home, instead of a wild, hatle girl, they saw a beautiful, carefully dreed young lady.That should not have had to be a problem, but it really was.Catherine began to feel Heathcliff was so dirty, cro and black that she worried if she would get dirty by touching him, which made Heathcliff upset and hurt.From then on, their relationship began to change.What really changed their relationship was Catherine‟s marriage with Edgar Linton.
Till now, I haven‟t understood why Catherine at one hand behaved as Heathcliff was the
person really in her heart, and at other hand accepted Linton‟s proposal to her.Yes, there must be something related to money.Catherine once said, “in my heart and soul I know I‟m wrong! I can‟t live apart from Heathcliff! He is more myself than I am.Our souls are the same! I have nothing in common with Edgar.But I can‟t marry Heathcliff now! Hindley has made him become a poor, dull farm worker.He‟ll never know I love him.” Maybe this is the portrayal of her real thoughts.But I don‟t think Heathcliff was so important to her as she said and she didn‟t really love him, otherwise, how could she described him as a poor, dull farm worker? As a matter of fact, she only loved herself.Still, there is something right.Catherine and Heathcliff were the same kind of person----they were both selfish.Later I‟ll talk about this.
Heathcliff accidently heard Catherine‟ words, and disappeared from then on.It has been five years before they met again.Heathcliif‟ disappearance had no influence on Catherine‟ marriage, though Catherine was anxious about his whereabouts at first.Catherine lived a abundant life as she thought after marriage, and Linton care much about her.All seemed so fine.Unfortunately, this happine didn‟t last long.It was ruined by Heathcliff‟s coming.Catherine was very exciting to see Heathciff, talking about him so much that made her husband angry.Reading about those, I doubted what the real thought she had, and what the position Heathciff took in her heart.She said Heathciff was her friend.What kind of friend? Just friend, close friend or special friend? The answer is not difficult to figure out.To Catherine, Heathcliff was special, she wanted an abundant life, an exalted status, as well as, Heathcliff‟s company.Yes, she desired so much.Yet, Heathcliff was not back only for her.He was to take revenge on Catherine‟s brother, who leaded to his separate with Catherine to a degree.And he made it, without striking a blowing.He won almost all the property originally belonging to Hindley.But, this was not enough to him.When he found Linton‟s sister Isabella was in love with him, he took advantage of it, which also made Catherine annoying.Things went as Heathciff‟s plan, except that Catherine got sick and died after a period of time.The conversation between Catherine and Heathcliff gave me a strange feeling that I couldn‟t exactly figure out.It might be sadne, pity or something just touching me.“I won\'t lie there alone，Heathcilff！I won\'t rest until you\'re in the grave with me！”“Will you forget me，
and be happy with others，when I\'m in my grave？” If we couldn‟t see how she loved him before, we shouldn‟t ignore it this time.Although I thought of her love, or should say their love, as selfish and unreliable.
After Catherine‟s death, I had thought all those would come to an end, no matter Heathcliff‟s hate or the love between him and Catherine.On the contrary, they kept company with Heathcliff all his remaining years, resulting in the tragedy between Cathy and little Linton.From Heathcliff‟s attitude to his son, I had a deeper understanding of his cruel, indifferent and selfish.It seems that on one was important to him.I even doubt if he cared about himself.His heart was full of hate and memory of Catherine.But how selfish he was! At one hand he loved Catherine so much, at
another hand he treated her daughter Cathy extraordinary bad; he even hit her! Is the way he loved Catherine? How could he be so selfish to think only about himself!
After all, all those complicated things came to an end with Heathcliff‟s death.He finally realized what he did was wrong.And he died smiling.I recalled that Catherine looked more beautiful that in life in death.They were similar.All that they once tangled with went away with their death.Death might be a solution to free them from miserable fate.It should be a comfort that Cathy and Hareton, Hindley‟s son, got married, of course, not concerning about their blood relationship.
Story has all ended up there.Now seeing from the whole plot, the fate of its characters has so much in common.Cathy and Hareton just like Catherine and Heathcliff.They met similar difficulties, and they once had been the same proud.It seemed that all came back to the very beginning.But their ends were completely different; Cathy and Hareton got a happy ending, also giving the story a happy ending.The story showed us humans‟ selfish, weakne and some other dirty points, making me feel disappoint.I don‟t know if it was because the author had something bad in her memory.No matter how, finally the two youth had overcame them and lived happily.It‟s enough…
