Gabby

Gabby's Book Review


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You hear a strange tapping on the window, the voice outside says “I’ve come home let me in the window.” Would you let the ghost in? Sounds interesting, doesn’t it? Its not, actually “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte was one of the most tedious books I have ever read.

The book starts off really slow. A man named Mr. Lockwood arrives at a place in England called Wuthering Heights. When he gets there he meets his strange and a little bit scary landlord Heathcliff. After a series of events Mr. Lockwood gets snowed in at Heathcliffs house and is forced to stay in an old guest room where he finds a diary. In the diary he reads of a woman named Catherine and her relationship with Heathcliff. Then that night after he dozes off he hears a tapping at the window and a woman named Catherine is begging to come in (Catherine is a ghost). Mr. Lockwood wakes with freight and wakes up Heathcliff who comes running in to the room. Mr. Lockwood tells him what happened and Heathcliff tells him to leave the room. As Mr. Lockwood is leaving he hears Heathcliff crying and saying “Cathy, come in”. Shocked, Mr. Lockwood runs home and asks his housekeeper Nelly Dean to tell him the story of Heathcliff and Cathy.

Nelly Starts at the beginning telling of how Heathcliff and Catherine met. Heathcliff was a boy that Catherine’s father found on the street and adopted as one of his own. Cathy liked him but her brother Hindley did not. After Cathy’s father dies Hindley takes over and turns Heathcliff into a laborer. Although Heathcliff has been made a laborer, him and become closer than ever and fall in love. However, Cathy also likes a man named Edgar Linton. She knows her and Heathcliff can’t be together so she gets together with Edgar. Heathcliff was so hurt that he left for three years and returns right after Edgar and Cathy’s marriage. When Heathcliff comes back he is mysteriously wealthy and sets out to get revenge on those who wronged him. Around this point the story starts to get a little bit interesting although it still drags on a bit. Anyway, when Heathcliff returns Cathy is excited but soon after they get into an argument because Heathcliff marries Edgar’s sister Isabella. Cathy and Edgar have a child named Catherine, but soon after the older Cathy dies. Heathcliff and Isabella also have a baby named Linton but when Isabella dies the baby has to go live with Heathcliff. Heathcliff treats his son horribly and forces him to marry the younger Cathy. Soon after the marriage Linton dies and Cathy is forced to live with Heathcliff and become a maid. That brought the story up to the present time and Mr. Lockwood was appalled.

Mr. Lockwood immediately left Thrushcross Grange and went to London for six months. When he comes back though there is new news. Heathcliff died and was hopefully happy in his after life with Cathy. The younger Catherine grew to love Hereton (Hindleys son) and they live happy. The story ends with Mr. Lockwood Visiting Heathcliff and Cathy’s graves which are right next to each other.

This Story sounded really interesting before I read it. It is one of those books that you read the back and it sounds really good but then you start actually reading it and it just drags on and on. I personally could not become interested in the book throughout the whole thing, and I would not recommend reading it unless you like boring, long, tedious books. It is labeled a classic but I really don’t know why.