Can I just say one thing?

[totoro]

So I just got done re-reading this book, and I have to admit I was little pissed off at Nellie for a bit because Cathy wants to go see Linton and she keeps trying to keep her from it, and then, sure enough:

HEATHCLIFF PULLS HIS BULL CRAP OF KIDNAPPING THEM.

So then I didn't hate Nellie anymore

I didn't remember a lot of it since I haven't read it since high school, and that was like 5 or 6 years ago.

And then Linton died and I was happy. (Does that make me a bad person?)

But as far as Catherine and Heathcliff, I know everyone thinks its romantic how passionate they are in their love for one another, but I don't know if it were to happen to me, how I would handle it. Because passionate love is good, but if it makes you selfish like her, or a jerk like him, I don't know that I could handle that.
I mean, I would hope that I could have the sarcasm of Miss Bennett and Mr. Darcy's relationship AND the passion of Catherine and Heathcliff, but I have yet to find that myself.

[optimisticnad]

'Can I just say one thing' - I thought this was going to be some foul post telling us all to take a hike before you left, like the temps last day at work! Glad it wasn't.

I semi-agree with the last bit, everyone thinks the love between Heathcliff and Catherine is romantic - it is destructive. Their 'llove' does not justify their actions, especially Heathcliff's.