This is the third book in the popular twilight series. Meyer has structured a plot with Wuthering Heights guiding her
hand. To her success, it does work and many threads can be drawn between Eclipse and
Wuthering Heights.
First, one needs to consider in Eclipse, who is Catherine? who is
Heathcliff? who is Edward Lindton?
and how exactly could Bella, Edward and Jacob ever be portrayed as inherintly evil beings?
In Eclipse, Bella feels the need for both Edward and Jacob in her life. (for all intents and purposes) Bella believes herself to be a Catherine-like figure luring both the men she loves by her own fragility, her own unaware indecision. At the end of the novel, Bella picks up her own copy of Wuthering Heights and says 'Catherine may have been a monster but she was right about something' That something is the quote she proceeds to read out to Edward. In so doing, Bella chooses Edward as her Heathcliff to spend immortality with.
But, at the same time, it does not make sense for Jacob to be Lindton as Jacob is too much of a Heathcliff with his dramatic rages and declaring to kill Edward at every turn. Lindton wanted Catherine as his wife because firstly, he loved her and secondly, it was appropriate that they marry because they both moved in the same social circles. Jacob believes he is the better choice for Bella because he sees himself as human when compared to Edward. Jacob feels he and Bella are the same species and move in the same social circles whereas Edward belongs to the underworld. In my opinion, both Edward and Jacob belong on the moores as a Heathcliff character, they are both creatures of the night and creatures of the wild. Jacob is a shapeshifting wolf and Edward a Vampire.
Edward can then indeed assume the role of a much better Heathcliff. The Heathcliff that would have been if Catherine had treated him better. Bella, as a Catherine figure loves deeply and desperately. In New Moon we saw her fall apart when Edward leaves. This breakdown is similar to Catherine's breakdown when Heathcliff leaves for the second time taking Isabelle with him. In Eclipse, Bella is the adolescent Catherine desperately hanging on to Eward while keeping Jacob close encouraging his advances in case Edward leaves her again.
To say Bella is confused is an understatement. To me, I find it utterly ridiculous that she would even consider Jacob when Edward is around. Eventually Bella sees reason but by then Edward is fully aware of how she feels about Jacob and gentleman that he is, he blames himself. Heathcliff in his misery blamed everyone but himself and thus we see how the two characters of Edward and Heathcliff greatly differ as the book winds down and we near the end of the entagled plots of Eclipse and Wuthering heights. Thus we can safely say that Meyer takes Wuthering Heights and straightens out the characters and plot to have a happy ending. In so doing, she lays the wuthering heights plot to rest at the end of Eclipse.
A detail which I found interesting and a point of similarity between Wuthering Heights and Eclipse is the use of the window in Catherine/Bella's room to mark the doorway into and out of the supernatural. In Wuthering Heights, Catherine's ghost taps on the window to be let in from her ghostly wonderings on the moores. In Eclipse both Edward and Jacob (creatures of the supernatural underworld) enter Bella's world through her window. The moment when Edward bundles Bella up and hops out the window with her in New Moon signifies the moment when he fully accepts her into his world.