Description
Isabella inherits the blonde hair, blue eyes and pale skin of the Linton family. Her son, Linton Heathcliff, also inherits these features. She is very sensitive, yet a bit shallow, and, in the words of Nelly, "has a capacity for strong attachments", shown in her falling hopelessly in love with Heathcliff, who in turn takes advantage of her blind affections and traps her in a tormenting marriage.
She was at that time a charming young lady of eighteen; infantile in manners, though it possessed of keen wit, keen feelings, and a keen temper, too, if irritated.
— Excerpt from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
'I'm not envious: I never feel hurt at the brightness of Isabella's yellow hair, and the whiteness of her skin, at her dainty elegance, and the fondness all the family exhibit for her.'
— Catherine Earnshaw to Nelly Dean, from Wuthering Heights
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