And What About Nelly Dean?

Well, she's the narrator. Her job is to take care of any and all kids in this book, including Catherine, Heathcliff, Hindley, Hareton, CJ, Linton, everybody. She's very calm and unbiased, telling Cathy's story as it is, and caring for all the characters because she raised them. At this point she has to be quite old, at least 50 or 60.

I like her a lot. She is one of the few sane people in this book who isn't always trying to kill someone and she has a straight-forward way of looking at things. It makes the story much more enjoyable because she knows these people really well, having raised them. She is easily my favorite of the minor characters and I hope all this insanity works out for her without too many of her charges dying (even though that's pretty much impossible with the way things are going).