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Originally Posted by stopdog
Art - can you explain what it is that you find so compelling about WH?
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Why of course! There's just such power in the love between cathy and heathcliff, the depth of their characters, I love Ellen too, even when she doesn't want to she loves Cathy, I really feel connected to the stark beauty of the moors and that house as opposed to the elegance of thrushcross grange, i love cathy's struggle between her wildness and her need for a fancier life. I love to hate Edgar and Isabel. I love how C and H seem to be each other's shadow - H represents C's wild heart, and C's need sort of is represented in H when he marries Isabel in part to spite C. And young catherine so much like her mother... I remember when I first read the book, I was a very shy 11th grader who had never been on a date, and longed for someone to love me the way H loved C. Even with how it all turned out... that was beautiful to me too... my heart is just so stirred every time I read it. I guess that's the biggie for me. It stirs my very soul. I have a wildness in my soul but I hide it so far below the surface that no one even suspects that it's there and I feel it big time when I read the book.