Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

I have decided to add a few notes on books i am currently reading during those days when i am simply too busy/exhausted to sit for 2hours and type up a story. I hope you won't consider it lazy, but between my research assignments, traveling husband, children, diet/exercise (yuck), guests and household chores some days time just slips away.....

I am currently half way through Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I am very much enjoying the language, and Emily's easy writing style. But i have to say i feel almost no sympathy for any of her overly dramatic characters. It's very hard to envision yourself in a story where you just want your hand to slip through the pages and give all involved a good slap. I don't mind Ellen (aka: Nelly) the house keeper, but i do find her quite self-righteous and simple; she could have been a real hero in the story. But instead we are stuck with the devious Heathcliff, hoping (pointlessly) he does something to better his attitude. I wish i had a chance to read it in high school, i would have really liked Catherine, she reminds me of myself at 16. But now i just want to give her a good shake and tell her to "Get a grip!" I hope it ends better than it started.

....So i have now completed Wuthering Heights. It was very a intriguing read. Owing to the fact that i found the characters shallow minded and Heathcliff particularly repulsing, and i just could not relate to them at all, it took me longer than expected to finish. The ending is both surprising and incredibly moving, redeeming the story of its depressing melancholy. Although i will not be reading it again any time soon, i am bound to pick it up and happily revisit it's complex sadness one rainy day. I am glad i have read it, the characters although coarse and quite pathetic are very well written and whole in my mind. I would recommend this book for Intellectual Teenagers and all those interested in the complexity of the English language.