Summary of Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights

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Wuthering Heights novel tells about a history of Mr. Lockwood’s journey  as a new tenant of a place called “Thrushcross Grange” and Mr. Heathcliff as the owner. Wuthering Heights is a name of Mr. Heathcliff’s dwelling, it is the most beautiful and peaceful  place that Mr. Lockwood has visited.When Mr.Lockwood came inside there, he felt nothing and the rooms showed unextraordinary things unless before passing treshold.

He paused  to admire a quantity of grosteque carving lavished over the front, especially about the principle door, he found a figure of shameless little boys,  he detected a date ‘1500’ and the name “Hareton Earnshaw” that appeared some questions in his mind about the history of him.The next day in afternoon set in misty and cold weather, the road was full of mud, Mr. Lockwood came to Wuthering Heights for dinner, but he came too late, it was in the late of night until no one coming up to open the door for him.

Then, there was a man without coat and shouldering a pitchfork hailed him to follow him to his house to waiting for Mr.Heathcliff coming for taking Mr. Lockwood home. At the same time he met a young lady who serves him a cup of tea, but she looked unpleasant with his attendance. At first,  Mr. Lockwood thought that Mrs. Heathcliff ( a young lady) is Mr. Heathcliff wife but they had a great different ages, unfortunately he was wrong,  Mrs. Heathcliff was Mr. Heathcliff daughter-in-law, then Mr. Lockwood began to think that young man is her husband, but he gone wrong again, that young man is not his son. At the same time there was a former who came there to make a trouble  until the situation became tighten, everyone there including Mrs. Heathcliff were going mad.

Mr.Lockwood knew that Mrs. Heathcliff was not good, but he asked her attention to point out some landmarks by which him know his way home, but he got unclear answer, then he tried to deal with her what if he stayed there just for a night, but was being scolded, humiliated, and chased away because they do  not accept a stranger in their house.

Mr.lockwood took the lantern which he seized unceremoniously and calling out that he would gave it back to them, but Joseph tought that he stole the lattern until he called the dogs to run after him. Mr. Lockwood run away, then he became trembled with wrath, the vehemence of his agitation brought on a copious bleeding at the nose.

There was a woman, her name is Zillah as a stout housewife  came to help him, cure and give him a room to stay overnight. As he entired his room, the ledge, where he placed his candle had a few mildewed books piled up in one corner, It was covered three names that made him feel curious CHATERINE EARNSHAW-CATHERINE HEATCLIFF-CATHERINE LINTON.

Lockwood began to read the diary, he found the truth than Catherine lived with Hindley as a detestable substitute after her father died, she spent her tricky and saddest life because Hindley and his wife France were tough couple, they warned her to stay away from Heathcliff as an orphan, they called them as vagabond who didn’t to live with them. After that Mr. Lockwood falls asleep, he began had a nightmare, even he passed it twice. Catherine was appeared in his dream with all her history, as if it was the flashback of her lifestory.

Then he woke up suddenly while he heard a voice passing trought the window and knuckling the glass of window, he stretching his arm out to the branch, his fingers closed on the ice-cold hand and hearing the name of Catherine Linton begged to let in, the intens horor came over him. Suddenly Mr. Heathcliff rushed into his room when he heard Lockwood cries the room was haunted, when Lockwood down to the floor, Mr.Heathcliff cries to Cathering, begging her back. In the morning,  Mr. Heathcliff escorted Lockwood to the Thrusshcross Grange.

 When he arrived there, he had a good service from Mrs. Dean as a housekeeper in Wuthering Heights, while he was there he got a lot of information about Catherine.  She explained that  Mrs. Catherine ( a young lady) whom he met at Wuthering Heights in a daughter of the first Catherine , the first mistress of Mrs. Dean. And Hareton Earnshaw is a cousin of a young Catherine which was a nephew of Catherine (a young Catherine’s mother). The first Catherine was the daughter of Mr. Earnshaw the late propietor of Wuthering Heights. For now a young Catherine is the last of the Linton, and Hareton Earnshaw is the last of Earnshaw.