Catherine represents wild nature, in both her high, lively spirits and her occasional She loves Heathcliff so intensely that she claims they are the same However, her actions are driven in part by her social ambitions, which initially are awakened during her first stay at the Lintons, and which eventually compel her to marry Catherine is free—spirited, beautiful, spoiled, and often arrogant, she is given to fits of temper, and she is torn between her both of the men who love The location of her coffin symbolizes the conflict that tears apart her short She is buried in a corner of the In contrast to Catherine, Isabella Linton—Catherine’s sister—in—law represents culture and civilization, both in her refinement and in her Ultimately, she ruins her life by falling in love with He never returns her feelings and treats her as a meretool in his quest for revenge on the Linton

Just as Isabella Linton serves as Catherine’s foil, Edgar Linton serves as Heathcliff’ Edgar grows into a tender, constant, but cowardly He is almost the ideal However, this full assortment of gentlemanly characteristics, along with his civilized virtues, proves useless in Edgar’s clashes with his He sees his wife obviously in love with another man but unable to do anything to rectify the Heathcliff, who gains power over his wife, sister , and