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Hindley Earnshaw
Hindley Earnshaw is a fictional character in Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights". Hindley is the brother of Catherine Earnshaw, father of Hareton Earnshaw, and sworn enemy of Heathcliff. He descends into a life of drunkenness, degradation, and misery after his wife Frances dies from consumption, shortly after childbirth. This enables Heathcliff to seek revenge on him for his cruelty towards him in his childhood years.
Story.
Hindley begins to view Heathcliff as his rival when Mr. Earnshaw, his father, brings
In keeping with the supernatural themes present in the novel, it is speculated that Heathcliff might be a demon or a hellish soul. His appearance would be faithfully interpreted as resembling a Roma, or Gypsy. He becomes a gentleman "in dress and aspect." Mrs. Ellen Dean states that he could be a "little Lascar or American castaway."
A silent and at first solitary child, Heathcliff is initially resented by both Catherine Earnshaw and her elder brother, Hindley; whilst Catherine later befriends and loves Heathcliff, Hindley