| Description | Character |
| Fair-haired girl that eventually escapes her husband and moves south | |
| Devoted husband with delicate features and constitution | |
| Primary narrator of the story; tenant at Thrushcross Grange | |
| Orphaned child brought to live at Wuthering Heights; later owns it | |
| Frail and delicate wife who dies in childbirth | |
| Spoiled girl that marries one cousin and is set to marry another | |
| Hot-headed girl/woman who marries one man while loving another more | |
| Rough boy who received bad influence all around; now learning to read from his cousin | |