Emily Bronte's most famous piece of writing, Wuthering Heights is a detailed description of contrasting houses, which embody the two major principles of life in the novel: storm and calm. Gradually depicted is a story of two families, two generations, and two houses located four miles apart over a time lapse of forty years. The novel discloses complex characters such as Heathcliff and Catherine who are affected greatly by their surroundings. Wuthering Heights is the residence of the Earnshaw family who represent the storm and the Lintons, originally from Thrushcross Grange, represent the calm. Emily Bronte uses two contrasting places to show that extremes of emotions are destructive and happiness is found in balance. Discord and hostility are thrust into the lives of those at Thrushcross Grange. The one side of the spectrum with passive, more civilized, and calm tendencies are not safe from the destructive behavior of extreme opposites. However, the Heights and its inhabitants, transpire to have strong, passionate, and stormy qualities. Theses qualities bring about an excess of emotion, which consequently results in violence and conflict as well. A resolution cannot be reached until these two extremes can come together at a mid-point with Hareton and Young Catherine.
             Although Thrushcross Grange has beauty and decorum to offer, its lack of emotion complements the type of characters it creates greatly contrasting to Wuthering Height. At first glance, Thrushcross Grange is the ideal dwelling. It is "...a splendid place carpeted with crimson, and crimson-covered chairs and tables, and a pure white ceiling bordered by gold, a shower of glass-drops hanging with silver chains from the center and shimmering with little soft tapers." The Lintons adorn their household with ornaments and paint a picture portraying their pleasant yet shallow life. From this house pampered, delicate children emerge. "Isabella...lay scream...