- Why was Heathcliff allowed to live with Hindley at Wuthering Heights in the first place after returning with Isabella? "Enemies" ??
- Why didn't they acknowledge the fact that Catherine was pregnant? They didn't say anything about her until she died (I'm assuming from childbirth?) ??
- "It kind of tediously takes a lot out of you to read it, but its worth it. and the ending didn't SUCK like school books usually do."
- "If I had to describe it in one word, i'd use "pretty," oddly enough."
- "The language is so creaking ELOQUENT. and yet you can easily understand it, that's the best part."
- "I used to draw a comparison between him [Edgar Linton] and Hindley Earnshaw, and Perplex myself to explain satisfactorily why their conduct was so opposite in similar circumstances. They had both been fond husbands, and were both attached to their children; and I could not see how they shouldn't both have taken the same road, for good or evil. But, i thought in my mind, Hindley, with apparently the stronger head, has shown himself sadly the worse and the weaker man. When his ship struck, the captain abandoned his post; and the crew, leaving no hope for their luckless vessel. Linton, on the contrary, displayed the true courage of a loyal and faithful soul: he trusted God; and God comforted him. One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them." (Chapter xvii)
- "'I've a pleasure in him,' he continued, reflecting aloud. 'He has satisfied my expectations. If he were born a fool I should not enjoy it half so much. But he's no fool; and I can sympathize with all his feelings, having felt them myself. I know what he suffers now, for instance, exactly: it is merely a beginning of what he shall suffer, though. And he'll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance. I've got him faster than his scoundrel of a father secured me, and lower; for he takes a pride in his brutishness. I've taught him to scorn everything extra-animal as silly and weak. Don't you think Hindley would be proud of his son, if he could see him? almost as proud as I am of mine. But there's this difference; one is gold put to the use of paving stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost: rendered worse than unavailing. I have nothing to regret; he would have more than any but I are aware of. And the best of it is, Hareton is damnable fond of me! You'll own that I've out-matched Hindley there. If the dead villain could rise from his grave to abuse me for his offspring's wrongs, I should have the fun of seeing the said offspring fight him back again, indignant that he should dare to rail at the one friend he has in the world!" (Chapter xxi)
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