Wuthering Heights Book Report The main and important characters in the book are Heathcliff, Catherine, Hareton Earnshaw and Linton Heathcliff. Heathcliff in the book is an orphan who was brought to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw, he falls in love with his daughter Catherine. When Hindley's father dies, he begins to abuse Heathcliff and treat him like a slave/servant. Catherine marries Edgar Linton, which humiliates and makes Heathcliff unhappy. He spends the rest of his life seeking revenge on all of them. Catherine in the book is Mr. Earnshaw's daughter, she falls in love with Heathcliff and considers them the same person. She marries Edgar Linton because of her social desire. Hareton Earnshaw in the book is Catherine's nephew, after his father's death Heathcliff takes custody of him and makes him a field worker and uses him as revenge on Hindley. Linton Heathcliff in the book is the son of Heathcliff, he is always ill he goes to live with his father when he is thirteen his father forces him to marry the young Catherine and despises his son Linton dies not long after getting married....