While Catherine forms a deep attachment to Heatcliff, her brother Hindley despises him az a rival.Heatcliff becomes torn betwwen love for Catherine and the rage and humiliation he suffers.Finally he can stand it no longer and,in the violence of a summer storm,leves the Heights for three years.During his absence Catherine has married , but her tormented heart belongs eternally to Heatcliff who is now prepared to exact his tyrannical revenge.