Wuthering Heights

Joy and I finished reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte together. It was quite a different book than I was expecting. I liked the style in which it was written and the way the story was developed, often hearing the action 4th or 5th hand. (Going by the principle that a story gets more interesting the more times it is told by a good story-teller.) I expected a typical love story about two people being continually separated and frustrated by culture and fate until they finally get together and live happily ever after. (My copy of the book has a couple sitting under a tree together. Maybe I shouldn't judge books by their cover...) This book is anything but that. Halfway through, the love interest, Cathy, dies and Heathcliff goes mad. I found it very hard to empathize with the principle characters (especially the first Cathy) and their decisions. I did like Hareton and the second Cathy Linton and Nelly Dean, and felt sorry for the older Edgar Linton. Overall, it was a good book and a very well told story.