Brief Summary Of Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte and was first published in 1847. The story takes place in England in the early nineteenth century. The story starts off with Mr. Lockwood, the first person observer, moving into a new house, and going to visit his landlord at another nearby place. His landlord's house and its occupants are very mysterious people. When Mr. Lockwood gets home, he asks his housekeeper for a brief history of the landlord and his house. Mr. Lockwood is a mid-aged businessman, who seems to be slightly self-centered and smug. Mrs. Nelly Dean is the housekeeper at the Thrushcross Grange(Mr. Lockwood's new home), who we discover used to have been the keeper of Wuthering Heights as well. Heathcliff is the malicious, unforgiving

Lockwood arrives at the isolated Wuthering Heights, he notices very odd things about the house, and the manner of its occupants, which were Heathcliff, Hareton Earnshaw, and Catherine Linton-Heathcliff. He observes Heathcliff's seemingly evil and vindictive ways, and when he gets back to Thrushcross Grange he talks to his housekeeper Nelly Dean. Mr. Lockwood persuades Nelly to give him the history of the two estates and the reason for Heathcliff's malicious manner. Nelly begins in the early days of Wuthering Heights. She had been a playmate of Hindley and Catherine Earnshaw while they were children. One day Mr. Earnshaw, the father of Hindley and Catherine, came home with a young child, who he had found abandoned on the side of the road. While the child was ugly, he easily became a favorite of Catherine and Mr. Earnshaw. Hindley, on the other hand, hated Heathcliff. He envied Heathcliff because he seemed to be favored. He often abused Heathcliff when Heathcliff had done nothing wrong. However, as they got older, Heathcliff began to taunt Hindley, and take his poundings, to create an even stronger favoritism with Catherine. However, when Mr. Earnshaw suddenly died, Hindley became the new owner of the estate. Having control over the home and the others, he took out his anger on Heathcliff. Catherine and Heathcliff's only comfort was the other's presence. When Hindley realized this, he began driving a wedge between them. He did not want Heathcliff influencing Catherine, and he didn’t want Catherine reforming Heathcliff. Thus he would not allow them to talk to each other. Hindley soon married a woman who appeared to have a great effect on his life. His cruel treatment of the other two relaxed slightly. They had a child who they named Hareton, but soon after, Hindley's wife died, and he changed for the worse. His hatred for Heathcliff increased, and he had no cares for Hareton or anything else for that matter. As they all got older, it appeared that Heathcliff