critical interpretations

• Traversi


  motive force of novel is "a thirst for religious experience" but not Christian
• Eagleton (Marxist)


  Cathy attempts at "running in harness an ontological commitment to Heathcliff with a phenomenal relationship with Linton"
• Whipple


  Heathcliff is a "deformed monster"
• Crouse


  Cathy is "a motherless girl in a home dominated by men"
• Van Ghent


  drew attention to metaphors of windows and thresholds
• Peele


  "addictive love"
• Kettle


  "concerned not with love" but with "the arrangement of marriages", "the validity of religion" and "the relations of rich and poor"
• Jerrold


  "testimony to the supreme power of love"
• Bowen


  Cathy is "between names, as between families"