"What were the use of my creation if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in the world would be Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be; and, if he were annihilated, the Universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage of the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff - He's always, always in my mind- not as a pleasure, any more than I am always pleasure to myself- but, as my own being- so, don't talk of our separation again: it is impracticable..."
             After reading Emily Bronte's novel, Wuthering Heights, it became clear to me where the turning point in the story takes place. Though tragically ironic, Wuthering Heights is first and foremost a love story, and it is within in this passage that Catherine denies Heathcliff the love that she has and will always feel for him. The passage foreshadows the entire ending of the novel while instantly changing everything that we as the reader have come to know. As a reader it becomes apparent that the love between Heathcliff and Catherine must and will survive, but also leaves the reader asking how.
             As Catherine explains to Nelly her purpose for marrying Edgar Linton, even the governess proclaims that her motives are bad. However, Catherine seems well aware that her time with Edgar is limited. Through her feelings toward Heathcliff, Catherine discovers her own identity, her place in the world. These ideas she expresses explain to us the feeling of the deepest kind of passion she knows and that it is part of her being. This is a love which longs for a so
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