Please describe Hareton Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights.

The first time we meet Hareton Earnshaw is in Chapter Two,
when Lockwood decides to take his second ill-advised visit to Wuthering Heights. Let us
remember that Hareton is the soon of Hindley Earnshaw and his wife, who dies soon after
his birth. He has been left to be brought up by his dissolute and drunken father and
then by Heathcliff, who has delighted in treating Hareton in the same way that he was
treated by Hindley as a child. Heathcliff has therefore taken away his birthright from
him and also deprived him of the education that his position in society demanded,
leaving him to grow up to be a rough, uncouth young man. Note how he is described in
Chapter Two:

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Meanwhile, the young man had slung on to his
person a decidedly shabby upper garment, and, erecting himself before the blaze, looked
down on me from the corner of his eyes, for all the world as if there were some mortal
feud unavenged between us. I began to doubt whether he were a servant or not: his dress
and speech were both rude, entirely devoid of the superiority observable in Mr. and Mrs.
Heathcliff; hs thick brown curls were rough and uncultivated, his whiskers encroached
bearishly over his cheeks, and his hands were embrowned like those of a common labourer:
still his bearing was free, amost haughty, and he showed none of a domestic's assiduity
in attention on the lady of the
house.

So, when we are first
introduced to Hareton, just as when Cathy is first introduced to her cousin, his status
is rather confusing, as he appears to be a common man but there is something about his
bearing and attitude that does not fit this station in life. Of course, as the novel
develops, we discover that Hareton's attitude is something that changes, and his love
for Cathy is the principal vehicle that is responsible for that change, until, in the
final chapter, we are introduced to him as a handsome young man who is quite clearly a
gentleman.