Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is a love story that deals with the social classes and the suppression of true feelings. The characters within the story are truly fascinating, since they have numerous characteristic aspects.
             As in reality it is not possible to only live for love, as love cannot sustain you, you need money for food and shelter as for other things in life. The decision that Catherine makes about marrying Linton makes sense because he had money and he could provide for her needs and she wanted to live like a true princess also which Heathcliff didn't have.
             A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is about an American Ambulance Driver, Frederic Henry, based in Italy during the First World War and how he falls in love with an English Nurse Catherine Barkley near the front between Italy and Austria-Hungary. .
             At first Henry's relationship with Catherine is an elaborate game based on his attempt to seduce her, but when he is wounded and sent to the American hospital where Catherine works, their relationship progresses and they begin a passionate affair.
             After his convalescence in the hospital, Henry returns to the war front. Disgusted with the army and deciding to dessert his unit, as he has had enough of war; he dives into the river to escape.
             "I did not care what I was getting into. . . . I did not love Catherine Barkley nor had any idea of loving her. This was a game, like bridge, in which you said things instead of playing cards. Like bridge you had to pretend you were playing for money or playing for some stakes. Nobody had mentioned what the stakes were." (Hemingway, Ernest; 31).
             Social forms and conventions become extremely important as Henry and Catherine's sexual affair begins. The impropriety of their relationship is a source of danger; if their liaison is discovered, Catherine will be sent away. Helen Ferguson worries Catherine will become pregnant with an illegitimate child. For her part, Catherine seems even less concerned with social convention than Henry, dismissing his suggestion that they marry.