Heathcliff the original Grinch?

When I started to contemplate what I had read in Wuthering Heights, and what to write in this blog I found my thoughts turning to The Grinch.  Not so much the original cartoon as the newer version starring Jim Carrey.  I would never have expected to compare the two, but it rings of the same premise.  The Grinch had been raised in a community that had rejected him because he did not look like the others in Whoville.  He was green and hairy and slightly unkempt looking with all of his facial hair.  The Who's were a delightful looking people and looked down on the young Grinch often causing him great unhappiness.  He was teased, and taunted, never accepted, but admired by one girl (sorry, I can't remember her name).  Heathcliff, being dark haired, dark skinned, and having a dark mood was also different from the family his "father" brought him home to.  In both of these stories the main character is rejected by the whole for being different.  They both suffered with internal strife for the love they felt for the only females that would capture their hearts.  But this love was unacceptable, and the women turned their affections to men who were acceptable to the society they grew in.  Wracked with such pain Heathcliff and the Grinch exiled themselves outside of the community until the time was right to return.  Their hearts, in the meantime, were filled with such hatred for those who chastised them, and they were focused on revenge.