And So Heathcliff Continues: Wuthering Heights Journal: Part 3

I am beginning to think that Mrs. Dean's story about Catherine I's Heathcliff's life is the actual story...

So again we are treated (I'm up through chapter 10 at this point) to the saga of Heathcliff's past. One of the things that I had assumed was that Catherine I looked at Heathcliff as a brother... and boy was I wrong.

Catherine I is kind of romantically interested in Heathcliff, however due to the fact that he is a Gypsy, she is more interested (for her own reputation is my guess) in Edgar Linton. We also see Catherine I's temper, but not at it's full wicked potential.

BACKGROUND: Catherine I, having been attacked by demon dog goes to stay with the Linton family (whose demon dog attacked her) for the duration of roughly two months by my count. Naturally, she gets to know the family quite well, including their son Edgar.

So Heathcliff hears this, and runs off for three years. Catherine I misses him dearly, but still moves on with the marriage to Edgar Linton, who is sickeningly protective and in love with Catherine I. This marriage prompts Mrs. Dean to move with Catherine I into the Linton compound by the name of "Thrushcross Grange" (Sound Familiar???).

Enter Edgar's sister Isabella who is falling in love with Heathcliff. It's here that we see for the second time Catherine I's temper. She is quite an angry soul, with blame partially falling on Hindley (her brother)'s tyrannic treatment of her after their father passed away stretching until her exit from Wuthering Heights.

Speaking of, Edgar's wife, Frances gives birth to a son named Hareton (He is one of the characters currently living at Wuthering Heights that we met at the beginning, but I kind of shrugged him off as a minor character). Shortly after, the wife deathly afraid of dying dies of an illness within a year of Hareton being born, leaving Ellen/Nelly/Mrs. Dean to care for him.

Hindley becomes a drunkard after this, and is declining rapidly in both health and sanity. Enter Heathcliff after a three year absence and a cleaning/growing-up of sorts and they make up for Hindley's hatred towards him in the early years.

Apparently Heathcliff moves in at Wuthering Heights with Hindley, and Joseph  is worried that Hindley's drinking habits and the two's tendency to play cards at night and sleep the days away is destructive for Hindley, and Heathcliff may be trying to swindle money---or worse---- away from Hindley.

I don't know who I am rooting for in this case. It kind of seems at this point that everybody hates everyone else, and I am not finding an attachment to any character except for Mrs. Dean in all of this.

I have a feeling that Hindley's liver may explode and he dies soon. I have no clue what will become of the Lintons, but it seems that Heathcliff might take over Wuthering Heights.

I leave with the question of: If Heathcliff marries Isabella, is that Brother-Sister Marrying another family's Brother-Sister, or is Heathcliff not even a brother?