I Hate Wuthering Heights, and I Will Go to My Grave Hating Wuthering Heights. I Will Always Hate It

@SunshineGirl It's on my "I'm not sure whether I should read it list", so it's good to hear a good review.

@PDXNative1986 Well you've expressed your opinions very forcefully!

I had a lot of empathy for Heathcliff the boy, who was introduced to Wuthering Heights sheltering in the coat of his adoptive father. I felt for him everytime he was humiliated and rejected by his "family" and ultimately by Cathy. I also loved the image of the barefoot heroine, and then her daughter, rebelling against the roles ordained for them.

@PDXNative1986 What did you think about the descriptive writing of the desolate Yorkshire moors?

I think it's great that you've engaged with the book enough to form such strong opinions. You're perfectly entitled to detest it. It just happened to speak very strongly to me for other reasons.

@SunshineGirl I can't help but view everything through a very modern lens and while everything might have been ok by the Standards of the 1800s today we regard such behavior as abhorrent, for a reason. Of the moors, it sounds pretty dreadful but then again I've grown up in the Pacific northwest, we have Winters like that. Desolate.