Comparing Edgar and Heathcliff.

Although Edgar Earnshaw and Heathcliff had very different personalities and did not like each other in the slightest they did have their similarities. One similarity that both Edgar and Hindley had was an extreme love for Catherine. Catherine was Heathcliff's adoptive sister, and was Edgar's wife. Edgar was deeply in love with Catherine but Catherine and Heathcliff had an unexplainable love beyond that of Edgar's.

"'I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have though of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff, now' so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly , but because he's more myself than I am."(pg. 81) Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff and Catherine's love was never pursued and was always there, while Edgar was still in love with Catherine and getting little show of love in return.

Another similarity was hatred of each other. Both Edgar and Heathcliff hated one another, mostly to do with their involvements with Catherine.

In this way Heathcliff and Edgar Linton were very alike, not physically or personality wise, but because of the person loved by both