…I’m more worried about teenage girls, already finding a disturbing relationship romantic, will start mooning over Heathcliff. “He strung up a puppy, he must really love me.” … Someone gets these girls some Jane Eyre before it’s too late.
- Jessa Crispin

Ok, I’ll be the first one in line to look at Heathcliff and say “bad idea, do not want”. And yes, compared to Cathy, Jane looks good; but only because now you’ve set up the classic good girl/bad girl dynamic. They’re both morons. One flames out in a co-dependent trainwreck and the other buys into the “only you can save me from my man-pain” line of drivel. I don’t consider either one to be a particularly healthy role model.