Happy Ending in Wuthering Heights?

Question

the novel ended in a happy ending

Do u think that was a good idea or not?

explain?

Answer 1

thats in a alphabeat song! :)

10,000 nights

search it, its amazing.

Answer 2

I think it is a good idea.  Things didn't end happily for Catherine and Heathcliff, but neither of them were exactly innocent or good people.  But for Hareton and Cathy, it ended well which is good, because they were ones that were most harmed by the actions of Heathcliff and the first Catherine.

Answer 3

Dude, you want to argue with a Bronte sister.

I thought that the ending was "happy" with little Cathy being happy, but think about all the other characters that suffered all that misery and later died because of it.  The whole book is about these characters so confused and lost in love and everyone's trying to find there way back.  In the end there had to be a bright light in the scum when one pair was able to put the interests of another above there own.  

Answer 4

Did it?  I thought it was a miserable ending.  I must be thinking of a different book!

Are you sure you're not reading the Hollywood adaptation ;o)

Answer 5

I read Wuthering Heights a long time ago but I dont remember the ending being exactly happy...It was a different kind of love story most definetly....I think the ending was good but I would disagree that it was a happy ending...After the long journey of sorrow that everyone experienced I guess you learned that Heathcliff was the source of unhappiness for all of them and it wasnt until his death that people could be free and happy

Answer 6

In a way, it was a happy ending- [I will spoil you right now]

Heathcliff and Catherine were together at last, even if they had to die for that to happen. Cathy and Hareton could spend their lives together because Heathcliff was no longer alive to boss them around and prevent them to be together. I think it was a good idea on the part of the author in terms of redemption. Cathy will save Hareton from his original fate of being an illiterate servant boy, and this mirrors what Catherine could have done with Heathcliff, if she were not so preoccupied with appearances. In many ways, Cathy and Hareton represent the couple Heathcliff and Catherine could have been, but because their temperaments were not as extreme nor as passionate as Catherine or Heathcliff's, they can be together.

Answer 7

I thought the whole book was miserable and melodramatic and I barely got to the end of it. What was the happy ending? Between Hareton and Cathy? That was happy enough, and probably well deserved for the only bearable people in the novel. That was a fabulous idea, god knows something remotely pleasant had to happen in the book somewhere.

The main characters were such morally reprehensible people that the story needed a glimmer of innocence somewhere. Besides, Hareton and Cathy sort of represented what Heathcliff and Catherine could have been were they less ridiculous.