Wuthering Heights: Emily Brontë

      Cathy is a lively, free-spirited young girl who loves her father very much.  She comes from a well-to-do family, yet has little desire to be the 'lady' everyone thinks she will become. After returning home from a long journey, her father brings them back a very unique gift: a boy named Heathcliff.  At first she is unsure what to make of this gypsy child in her home.  Later Cathy begins to love him like her own brother Hindley.  As they grow up, Cathy sends all of her time with Heathcliff, running wildly around the moors and fields. As Cathy grow into an adult, she desperately tries to hold onto the wild side of her youth, and Heathcliff.  
     One night, after being attacked my dogs, Cathy is forced to stay in the home of Edgar Linton, a kind man who is absolutely in love with her.  She tries to push him away, but decides to let her wild side disparate instead, and conforms to the norms of society.  Heathcliff, however, does not change, and despises Cathy for leaving him and turning away from the old life.  

     This one of my All-Time favorites.  I read this novel every so often whenever the weather is properly cloudy and grim.  

Grade Level: 11.3