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Characters;;The story of Wuthering Heights is concerned with two families and an intruding stranger, and is a morbid love story between Catherine and Heathcliff.;Heathcliff, a gipsy waif of unknown parentage, picked up by Mr. Earnshaw in the streets and lived with his children, his son Hindley and daughter Catharine.;Hindley hated Heathcilff, but Catherine and Heathcliff loved each other. ;Heathcliff was treated well by Earnshaw, but when the old man died, Hindley bullied and insulted him. ;At the same time, Edgar Linton, the son of Thrushcross Granges host, paid court to Catherine. Catherine loved Heathcliff but thought it would lose her face to marry him. So she married to Edgar while Heathcliff left with enmity. ;Three years later, he returned as a rich man and took actions to revenge. He first married Edgar Linton’s sister Isabella to revenge him;He resumed his love to Catherine which brought her to death at the birth of her daughter. Even, he cheated Hindleys belongings by gambling. ;What’s more, he forced little Cathy to marry his sickly son Linton which did not succeed because of the death of Linton. After Edgar and little Linton all died, Heathcliff died at the end, Cathy and Hareton who was the son Hindley lived a happy life. ;;Catherines devotion to Heathcliff is immediate and absolute, though she will not marry him, because to do so would degrade her. Catherines passion is contrasted to the coolness of Linton ;Revenge;Lure of success and social standing;Class distinctions and prejudice