[WH] - YOLO

"...and, as he had no surname, and we could not tell his age, we were obliged to content ourselves with the single word, 'Heathcliff,'" (pg 286).

Whoever decided to say YOLO has never met Heathcliff nor Catherine (lucky them).  So when Catherine died, Heathcliff asked Catherine to not cease haunting him until he should die.  Apparently even then Heathcliff was planning his revenge to rise from the dead to haunt other people.  Obviously ghosts symbolize something in this novel since they haunted the book multiple times, but I am really struggling to decide their purpose.  Bullet lists, here I come!

• Though Catherine could die, her spirit lived on as a sign that true love never dies and that her love with Heathcliff could not be diminished.  Maybe he should be glad he never took his vows since they never married?
• After Heathcliff died, the two were able to haunt the moors.  See my analysis of the moors and why it would make sense for the two to reside there right here.
• If Heathcliff could remain in love with a ghost who is haunting him, then obviously he deserved her in the first place.
• Since Catherine never haunts Edgar Linton, it does not appear that she ever loved him as she did Heathcliff.
• Bronte was a Gothic writer and really found ghosts to interesting to not randomly throw into a love novel meet murder mystery minus the mystery minus the love.