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The attitude of Alistair McGowan, an apologist for Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights, towards Catherine and Heathcliff--the novel's central characters--as lovers was fundamentally affirmative, reflecting as it probably did the sentiments of most readers who voted for the book, most notably when, for example, he referred to Catherine's well-known exclamation, "Nelly, I am Heathcliff!" as a manifestation of perfect love. But although some Bronte scholars have interpreted that somewhat cryptic utterance in much the same fashion, others have used it as a basis for re-assessing, not to say impugning, a relationship that has all too often been considered almost sacrosanct. Here, Tytler explores the problem of "Identification" in Wuthering Heights.