Wuthering Heights: Friendship Or Passion - The Chemistry Between Heathcliff And Cathy

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with Heathcliff. Nelly explains this situation when Cathy
told the maid Edgar proposed to her. “You love Mr. Edgar, because he is
handsome, and young, and cheerful, and rich, and loves you.”1 (Pg 80)
Catherine later admits her true love for Heathcliff and how Edgar never was
a match for her.

“That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I've
no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in
heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought
Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it. It would
degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know
how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly,
but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls
are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as
different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”
(Pg 82)

When Heathcliff was first introduced to the Earnshaw family. He
was a poor orphan, with little or no education. The rest of the family ...

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