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The novel is structured around two different love stories. The first, which is between Catherine and Heathcliff, constitutes the center and the major conflict of Wuthering Heights. This story is so strange and peculiar because of its depiction of passionate and ungoverned love irrelevant to the social norms and conventional morality. In the beginning, Heathcliff spends most of his time with Catherine on the moors, playing together and kissing each other as romantic lovers. But, this relation will be destroyed when Catherine confesses to Nelly that she will get married to Edgar Linton to possess an important social status, and it would degrade her to marry Heathcliff. This suggests how Catherine is fond of Heathcliff to lose her own identity to merge it onto her "demon" lover who on the other side, considers Catherine as his "soul mate", when he expresses his love to her. They behave as immature and childish in the sense that the novel portrays no sexual intercourse between them, even though they sleep in one bed. Beside, there is in that passion "Any recognition of the domestic and social responsibilities, and the spiritual complexities, of adult life." Furthermore, This love is immortal and has some spiritual qualities that go beyond this world, especially if we know that the lovers reunite again afterlife; when Heathcliff dies, the features of his face indicate that he eventually meets again his lover as townspeople tell Nelly that they see his and Catherine's spirits walking on the moors.

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