Heathcliff is a character of mystery in the beginning of the novel; his youth seemed to be spent on the streets of Liverpool before Catherine's father took him home and looked after him. As a young boy, he was quiet and the reader didn't get to read many long speeches by him to help us understand his character better, like we did for all the others; he always seemed to be in the background of …showed first 75 words of 2202 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2202 total…for her to reject it; Heathcliff as a suitor wasn't good enough for Catherine because Linton was a more socially acceptable option, therefore it seemed logical to Catherine to chose his world over Heathcliff's wild and coarse nature. Bibliography: (1) Bronte, Emily; "Wuthering Heights"; Penguin Classics (2) http://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnotes/wuthering_heights/22.html (3) http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/wutherg21.asp (4) http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/wuthering/economic.html