Read the passage and answer the question world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched...

Read the passage and answer the question

world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself.If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he wereannihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it.My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees.My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He's always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being....

The diction of the extract conveys the speaker's