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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WH is one of the dumbest, overhyped books I ever had to read. A minority of people in Cathy's socioeconomic bracket would have married a first cousin, let alone twice. Heathcliff's wealth acquisition is improbable. [b]More improbable is the fact that he was informally adopted by a member of the gentry and treated as the favorite, over biological children.[/b] None of the characters' actions and motivations make sense. It's as if the person who wrote the book was a social outcast and didn't really know how people operate.[/quote]

Imo the "I found him in the streets starving" story about Heathcliff is a coverup Earnshaw tells people but it makes no sense at all and is not the truth. I think Earnshaw received a letter from Liverpool telling him a woman he once deeply loved died and her son is now an orphan. So he concocted this whole story about going to get gifts in Liverpool (something really unusual for him and Leeds is a lot closer) and then finding him as a way to bring him into the family and care for him. It explains the dead son's name, his affection and him being a favorite.

And the book is set in the late 1700s to early 1800s. People did marry their cousins all the time back then to preserve assets, and that became frowned upon later on in 19th century when inbreeding consequences came to light. [/quote]

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