Bronte illustrates the love between Catherine Linton and
Heathcliff in many intense ways. As Wuthering Heights is told
through the eyes of many narrators, it demonstrates that the love between the two
permeates to other characters. As children, they played together in the moors. As they
grew older, Catherine and Heathcliff promised one another that they would run away
together. After Edgar Linton proposes to Catherine, Catherine has a conversation with
Nelly trying to decide between Heathcliff and Edgar, in which Catherine
states:
“My love for Linton is like the
foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees.
My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath—a source of little visible
delight, but
necessary."
Emily Bronte
constantly uses nature as a metaphor for Heathcliff, thus showing the reader how
necessary he is to Catherine; how indispensable he is.
As
Catherine is dying in the moors, she called out to Heathcliff to be the last one to hold
her. After she does die, he cries out that he wants her ghost to haunt him for eternity.
Finally, Lockwood finds the room that Catherine Linton lived in as a child with
Catherine and Heathcliff written all over.
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