Throughout Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë introduces and develops several pairs of characters, ideas, and locations that work both together and in contrast to each other with others, such as the temporal, and perhaps the most obvious. , juxtaposition of the two properties Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Within these loci emerge three distinct pairs of characters, linked together by the similar type of relationship on which each is based: a brother-sister connection, although not necessarily defined by genetics. These three couples include narrator Nelly Dean and Hindley Earnshaw, Cathy Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and Isabella and Edgar Linton. Each relationship is unique: Nelly and Hindley are both breastfed by Nelly's mother and raised alongside each other, but Nelly is a servant of the Earnshaw family; Cathy and Heathcliff are raised together after Cathy's father brings the supposedly orphaned Heathcliff home from Liverpool; and Isabella and Edgar are biologically brother and sister. Yet, in addition to being based on a brother/sister relationship, these three couples share another commonality, which is that each couple experiences at least one separation and reunion of some sort. These periods of separation and these moments when the couples are reunited have a considerable impact not only on their own relationships, but also on those of the other couples and, ultimately, on the course of the novel. Nelly Dean, although she is a servant who grows up to become the housekeeper, is raised among the Earnshaw children, Hindley and Cathy, while her mother works for the family and, as such, she feels a strong connection with both (Brontë 28). This is evident not only through Nelly's incredible insight into the internal feelings Cathy feels, but also in the moments...... middle of paper... at the table with her guests rather than searching Heathcliff to console him. In her future relationships with Edgar Linton and Heathcliff, Cathy acts in accordance with the behaviors of her current company. As Nelly Lockwood informs her in the course of her story, where [Cathy] heard Heathcliff called a "vulgar young ruffian" and "worse than a bully," she was careful not to act like him. ; but at home she had little tendency to practice a politeness that would only be laughed at, and to restrain an undisciplined nature when it brought her neither honor nor praise (52). Works Cited Berlinger, Manette. “I am Heathcliff: the role of Lockwood in Wuthering Heights. » Bronte Studies 35.3 (2010): 185-93. Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. 4th ed. New York: WW Norton & Company, 2003. Gold, Linda. “Catherine Earnshaw: Mother and Daughter.” The English magazine 74.3 (1985): 68-73.