Heathcliff And Hareton's Death Analysis

Heathcliff has just died, and Hareton is the only one who mourns over him. Hareton is referred to “the most wronged” because Heathcliff treated him terribly by working him hard and taking advantage of him. Ironically, Hareton is the only one who suffers from his death when he was treated worse than everyone. Hareton loved Heathcliff because that is all he knew. Heathcliff was the only parent figure Hareton had because Hindley passed away a drunkard at a young age. It is natural for a child to love their parent no matter how harsh of treatment they receive. Hareton has “a generous heart” because he loves a cruel man, which he has every reason not to. By “everyone else shrank[ing] from complementing” Heathcliff, it shows how much Heathcliff was
disliked. Now that Heathcliff has died, Catherine Linton and Hareton Earnshaw receive Wutherings Heights and Thrushcross Grange, the property he wrongfully took from both of them.