>spurned by his oneitis
>leaves
>returns a wealthy man
>spends his remaining years ensuring that everyone else is as miserable as he was made to be

How is Heathcliff not utterly based? Is he not the very paradigm that 21st-century man ought to follow instead of paying for OF and marrying the post-wall roastie with a mulatto child?

Heathcliff is based for 9/10 of the novel but he softens up at the end.