Both women find their lives dictated by the rigid hierarchies of their worlds. Catherine is born into the gentry but feels the crushing weight of "proper" society. To her, marrying the refined Edgar Linton is a strategic move to become the "greatest woman of the neighborhood," even though her soul belongs to the "reclaimed creature," Heathcliff. Mariam's cage is forged from different metal. As a
Reading Wuthering Heights and A Thousand Splendid Suns together reveals a startling truth: They are both about what happens when human beings are denied agency—by class, by gender, by war, by family. And they both conclude that love is never pure; it is always entangled with power.
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