"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him." -pg. 70
This brings about a big theme in the book-- the battle between what a character really wants, and the character's duty to his/her family. In this example, Catherine obviously loves Heathcliff very much, yet she cannot marry him because of his social status. Heathcliff was a beggar and is very dirty. He was picked up by the family because he was left on the side of the road. Because of this, Catherine feels like she cannot marry him and her family will not approve. However, this decision sends her into a downward spiral. Although she marries Edgar and thinks she is happy, she truly loves Heathcliff until the day she dies. She frustrates me as a character simply because she was the cause of all this destruction, including her own. She made the decision to marry Edgar over Heathcliff, causing her all this heartbreak and her own death.
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