Wuthering Heights
Characters in Wuthering Heights
10 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Heathcliff
A foundling raised alongside Catherine whose obsessive love curdles into a generation-spanning revenge.
Catherine Earnshaw
A passionate woman torn between her bond with Heathcliff and a respectable marriage.
Supporting characters
Edgar Linton
The gentle master of Thrushcross Grange who marries Catherine.
Nelly Dean
The housekeeper whose recollections narrate much of the story.
Mr. Lockwood
The tenant whose visit frames the narrative.
Hindley Earnshaw
Catherine's resentful brother who degrades Heathcliff after their father's death.
Isabella Linton
Edgar's sister, drawn into a disastrous marriage with Heathcliff.
Linton Heathcliff
Heathcliff's sickly son by Isabella, used by his father as a pawn to force a marriage that will secure Thrushcross Grange.
Hareton Earnshaw
Hindley's son, deliberately kept uneducated by Heathcliff in revenge for his own degradation, later taught to read by young Catherine.
Catherine Linton
The daughter of Catherine Earnshaw and Edgar Linton, whose fate carries the novel's second half.