She entirely changes after some weeks she has spent with the Linton family. This is a new world for her. It is an opportunity for her to get rid of her bad features. After her long visit Heathcliff feels that he is not so important for her already. Catherine do not pay too much attention to her emotions for Heathcliff. She is happy about her new position. We do not know exactly about her feelings since she only talks about them later. During these weeks, Heathcliff is alone and does not get love from anybody. They get far from each other. They already live in different worlds, and Cathy falls in love with Edgar Linton who is the opposite of her best friend. But in fact she feels real love for Heathcliff, but does not marry him, because Hindley has degraded him after their father's death. She instead marries Edgar Linton, a neighbour from Thrushcross Grange, because he is handsome and rich. She is quite passionate about Heathcliff though, and does not want to give him up. Heathcliff loves Catherine, and leaves Wuthering Heights when he hears her say that she will marry Edgar Linton.
The emotions are brought to the surface only later. We can see differences between the two families in the novel: the Lintons are rich and intelligent, at Wuthering Height people are unintelligent and violent. This deepens the distance between the friends. In spite of the difficulties they love each other. The actions in the depths of the soul are the important points. The novel shows love in many versions and stages. Catherine tells the truth to Nelly Dean in connection with her love for Heathcliff. She is passionately in love with Heathcliff and so is he with her. He is more myself than I am- - says Catherine. She compares her love:.
My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and He remained, I should still continue to be; My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods.