How Are Cathy And Heathcliff Alike

Both Cathy and Heathcliff had a strong connection to each other. They loved each other so much that they felt that life was not worth living without the other. Heathcliff was devastated when Cathy chose to marry Edgar Linton rather than he. He was also devastated after Cathy died. Because of those incidents, he spent his whole life trying to get revenge on people out of his strong and deep rooted love for Cathy. Everything he did was for her. Cathy and Heathcliff were two emotionally attached people who dedicated their live to one another. Both individuals completed each other making them alike in so many ways and inseparable even after Cathy’s marriage to Edgar Linton. In the beginning of the novel Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brönte, Mr.

She no longer like to mess around in the garden with Heathcliff, but learned proper manners. Everyone was excited for her arrival especially Heathcliff, but he was surprised with what occurred when he came back. When she returned she said some rude things to Heathcliff which she would have never thought of saying before spending time at the Linton’s. This instance foreshadowed her future decision in choosing to marry Edgar. Nelly mentioned that Heathcliff expected to see a part of himself return in Cathy, but he was saddened to see the change in character (56 ,57). This expectation from Heathcliff shows that he believed that they were alike. He was missing the other part of him, the part that completed him and made him feel whole, which was Cathy. Even Cathy at one point said, “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…”(84). Cathy believed that they are one. She claimed that their souls were made of the same things, that her great miseries in the world had been Heathcliff’s miseries showing how alike they