Shaping Heathcliff's View of Family
             In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, many family issues and views are shown. Heathcliff in particular has a distorted view of family that can be attributed to his experiences before joining the Earnshaw family and later on, in his early encounters with them. This can be concluded by his interactions at Wuthering Heights. The cause of Heathcliff's warped perspective of family can be traced to his early life and life with the Earnshaw family
             Heathcliff's family history and early episodes with the Earnshaw family negatively affected his perspective of family. Heathcliff was a child gypsy who was brought home by Mr. Earnshaw on a trip home from business in Liverpool. Although information about Heathcliff's early life is unknown, one can almost be sure that he had been lost or abandoned by his parents. And because of Heathcliff's different, much darker skin tone, he probably faced harsh racism as a child. When he arrived at home of the Earnshaw family he was described as "a dirty, ragged, black-haired child; big enough both to walk and talk..."(Bronte, 1990, p 29). The very first description of Heathcliff portrays him as a dirty animal and in turn the family makes strong indications that they disapproved. However, this new gypsy child was now to become Hindley and Catherine's new brother. This turbulent beginning in a new family and turn of events as a youth help escalate Heathcliff's distorted perspective of family.!
             After the initial shock of new surroundings, many other circumstances greatly affected Heathcliff. Not everyone can instantly love a new brother and to further complicate things Hindley and Catherine had mixed reactions to their new sibling. Initially they both disliked him. "They entirely refused to have it in bed with them, or even in their room, and I had more sense, so I put it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it migh...