Emily Brontës Wuthering Heights :: essays research papers

Chapter I      But Mr. Heathcliff forms a crotchety contrast to his abode and style of living. He is a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect, in dress and objet dartners a gentle part       theme in his diary in 1801, Lockwood describes his first days as a tenant at Thrushcross Grange, an isolated manor in thinly-populated Yorkshire. Shortly afterwards arriving at the Grange, he pays a visit to his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, a surly, dark man living in a manor called Wuthering highschool"wuthering" being a local adjective used to describe the fierce and wild winds that electrical shock during storms on the moors. During the visit, Heathcliff seems not to trust Lockwood, and leaves him alone in a dwell with a group of snarling dogs. Lockwood is saved from the hounds by a ruddy-cheeked housekeeper. When Heathcliff give ups, Lockwood is angry, nevertheless last warms toward his taciturn host, andthough he hardly feels that he has been welc omed at Wuthering Heightshe volunteers to visit again the next day.Chapter II On a chilly afternoon not long after his first visit, Lockwood plans to lounge before the fire in his study, but he finds a servant dustily sweeping step up the fireplace there, so instead he makes the four-mile whirl to Wuthering Heights, arriving just as a light snow begins to fall. He knocks, but no one lets him in, and Joseph, an old servant who speaks with a thick Yorkshire accent, calls out from the barn that Heathcliff is not in the house. Eventually a rough-looking young man comes to let him in, and Lockwood goes into a sitting room where he finds a bonnie girl seated beside a fire. Lockwood assumes she is Heathcliffs wife. He tries to make conversation, but she responds rudely. When Heathcliff arrives, he corrects Lockwood the young woman is his daughter-in-law. Lockwood then assumes that the young man who let him in must be Heathcliffs son. Heathcliff corrects him again. The young man, Haret on Earnshaw, is not his son, and the girl is the widow of Heathcliffs cold son.The snowfall becomes a blizzard, and when Lockwood is ready to leave, he is forced to ask for a guide back to Thrushcross Grange. No one will help him. He takes a lantern and says that he will find his own way, promising to return with the lantern in the morning. Joseph, seeing him make his way through the snow, assumes that he is thieving the lantern, and looses the dogs on him.