ipl-logo

Wuthering Heights By Nelly Dean Sparknotes

854 Words4 Pages

Nelly Dean continues to tell Mr. Lockwood the story. He is greatly interested in what happened to Heathcliff when he disappeared for a while. She knows the story because when He arrived home from this adventure, Heathcliff told her everything. Nelly requested Lockwood not to interrupt her story. She knows he will get a greater understanding of the experience if he listens the entire time.
Heathcliff decided to leave Wuthering Heights the day Catherine told him it would be degrading to marry him. She told him she was going to marry Edger Linton because he was of a higher class and was much smarter. Heathcliff was unsure of where he was going, but he knew he was going to make something of himself before he returned. He jumped on his white stallion …show more content…

One passenger who was far older than Heathcliff was very curious. This passenger’s name was never revealed. He began to question Heathcliff, making him very angry. Heathcliff became even ruder with the man, giving him false answers and joking about the questions. This account made for a very long and frustrating journey.
After a twelve day journey on the boat, all but one passenger arrived safely in America. The lone female on the ship died of a bad case of shingles on the sixth day. When the passengers stepped off the ship into America, all expressed great excitement except Heathcliff. He was very poor in the face and gloomy acting.
Heathcliff’s friend, the old man on the boat, noticed Heathcliff’s appearance looked very poor. The gentleman, who Heathcliff decided to call Hindle after his annoying brother, offered to bring Heathcliff to his home. Hindle tells Heathcliff he was in Yorkshire visiting his family members, and he questioned him on the boat because he reminded him of his son. He then offered to bring Heathcliff to his home until his health …show more content…

He told Heathcliff his family was very wealthy and he had inherited the house when the majority of his family moved to Yorkshire. Hindle lived in the house with three servants. Hindle reveals to Heathcliff he was married, but his wife passed away when she gave birth to their son. Hindle also says he did not know how to raise the child so he sent him away. He refuses to tell Heathcliff where he sent him. This story scared Heathcliff. He began to walk around and get out of the house to improve his health, so he did not want to die like Hindle’s

Show More
Related

  • Margaret Garner Sparknotes

    909 Words  | 4 Pages

    Eventually, the whole plantation and the slaves were sold to John’s younger brother, Archibald K. Gaines. Margaret married one of her fellow slaves, Robert Garner, in 1849. Margaret had four children, Thomas, Samuel, Mary, and Priscilla. These children were all light-skinned and were thought to be the children of the plantation owner since

    Read More

  • Chapter 1 The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Dialectical Journal

    723 Words  | 3 Pages

    A couple days later, Huck finds Jim, but Jim has a hard time believing it because he’s supposed to be dead. Jim tells him that he ran away from Widow Douglas’s, which makes Huck feel guilty keeping him. They venture to a cave on the island and stay there until the storm stops. During the storm, a dead man washes up, but Jim doesn’t let Huck look at the face because he says it’s bad luck. Huck starts to get bored on the island so he decided to go into Illinois to get news of things going on.

    Read More

  • Huck's Maturation In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

    1597 Words  | 7 Pages

    Once aboard, they realize that they are in the company of a band of robbers, this time much more deadly than those fixated with Sunday school picnics. After escaping the raft, Huck immediately notifies local authorities of the robber’s calamity. When pressed on the identity of these unlucky crooks, Huck responds that they are his family so that they will be rescued with the utmost haste. Kolb notes that most of Twain’s characters, such as Jacob Blivens from The Story of a Good Little Boy, operate

    Read More

  • Huck Finn Civilized Analysis

    1015 Words  | 5 Pages

    When Huck steps away from his cocoon on the raft, he witnesses the Duke and the Dauphin's attempt to sell Jim, Huck’s loyal runawayformer-slave friend, back into slavery. Huck is confused by the men’s desire to sell Jim, but eventually concludes that he “will go to hell” to defend his friend (223). Huck’s tenacity and unwillingness to let Jim, his loyal companion, remain in the socially acceptable slavery, as well as his willingness to sacrifice his spiritual well-being to save his friend, conveys the idea that Huck disapproves of slavery and its principles. Huck’s situation, which exposes him to the heartless nature of society, is caused by the conniving actions of the Dauphin. The Dauphin is a con-man, who to feed his drinking habit, sells Jim for forty dollars.

    Read More

  • Uncle Toms Cabin Major Works Data Sheet

    1621 Words  | 7 Pages

    Tom eventually convinces two female slaves to escape, but is beat to death soon after. The two escaped slaves end up telling their story to Mr. Shelby who the happen to end up on the same ship. It is then revealed that two slaves on the ship are related to Eliza and George and end up travelling to Canada, eventually being reunited with their whole family. Mr. Shelby returns home without Tom, devastated, he soon after grants all of his slaves freedom.

    Read More

  • Examples Of Deception In Huckleberry Finn

    1424 Words  | 6 Pages

    While Jim stays with the canoe so he doesn’t get taken, the others go into the town to see that it’s empty except for a slave sunbathing in the heat. They ask where everyone is, and the slave says they’re in the woods for a camp meeting. Huck and the King go into the woods to spy on the camp meeting, while the Duke searches in the shops. The preacher begged the King to speak to the people, and he did so. He told the people that he was a “pirate-had been one for thirty years out in the Indian Ocean-and his crew was thinned out considerable last spring in a fight, and he was home to take out some fresh men” (Twain 134).

    Read More

  • Why Is Huck Finn Wrong

    679 Words  | 3 Pages

    Huck has faked his death, leaving the appearance that he has been chopped to pieces in his Pa’s cabin. As they travel on their raft, Jim explains to Huck why slavery is wrong, although Huck has been brought up to believe slavery is right. Huck struggles with whether or not to turn Jim in. They hide on an island, and Huck dresses up in girl’s clothes he finds in a cabin.

    Read More

  • Examples Of Immaturity In The Great Gatsby

    847 Words  | 4 Pages

    Once Catherine and Hindley die, Heathcliff continues to find a way to

    Read More

  • Wuthering Heights Heathcliff Abuse Quotes

    848 Words  | 4 Pages

    Isabella is depressed during most of the book because of her abusive marriage. During the book Wuthering Heights their is an chapter that is a letter written by Isabella and how her time at Wuthering Heights is. “ Is Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad?

    Read More

  • Huckleberry Finn Morality Analysis

    1083 Words  | 5 Pages

    Although Ms. Watson and Widow Douglas, Twains depiction of 19th century society, has made Huck’s vision of a stereotypical slaves/ African poor, Huck looks past this and sees that slaves can act like whites. Despite of Huck’s young age and lack of education, through experience Huck had looked past the cultural norm of slaves. When two men come to Huck and ask if the raft has any runaway slaves, Huck lies and says that there is only his Pap in the raft with chickenpox. After the men leave, unknowingly that Jim is in the raft, Huck

    Read More

  • Dogs In Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

    802 Words  | 4 Pages

    Early on in the novel, Heathcliff and Catherine snuck over to Thrushcross Grange when they were children to spy on the Linton children. They saw the two fighting over a dog and nearly pulling it apart. This foreshadows that later in the story, there will be a tension between Edgar and Isabella when Isabella goes against Edgar's wishes and marries Heathcliff. In Wuthering Heights, how a visitor will be greeted by the person they are visiting can often be foreshadowed by how the visitor is greeted by the dogs guarding the property (Rena-Dozier 770). When Heathcliff goes to visit Catherine after many years, the dog at Thrushcross Grange greets Heathcliff by wagging its tail at him rather than barking.

    Read More

  • Theme Of Self Alienation In Wuthering Heights And Frankenstein

    2102 Words  | 9 Pages

    Firstly the obsessive love between Catherine and Heathcliff. Catherine claims that her love for Heathcliff “resembles the eternal rocks beneath –a source of little visible delight, but necessary” (73). She tells her housekeeper “Nelly, I am Heathcliff –he’s always, always in my

    Read More

  • Neilly In Wuthering Heights Essay

    791 Words  | 4 Pages

    Throughout the novel, Nelly acts as the voice of reason to many of her mistresses, although sometimes their actions have consequences. For example, Nelly encourages Isabella to renounce her love for Heathcliff. Nelly knows that Edgar would never approve of him as her husband, but Isabella disregards her advice and seals her elopement with Heathcliff anyway. Their marriage provoked the tension that had remained after Catherine 's decision to elope with Edgar rather than Heathcliff. Brontë scholars believe that Nelly is one of the only characters in Wurthering Heights that has the power to "shape the plot" by the fact that she has been a support to a handful of the characters throughout the novel.

    Read More

  • Heathcliff As A Romantic Hero Analysis

    1133 Words  | 5 Pages

    (Bronte 39) This incident is explained as a nightmare, while Heathcliff’s apparition that is alleged by the villagers, can be dismissed as superstition: “But the country folks, if you ask them, would swear on their Bible that he walks. There are those who speak to having met him near the church, and on the moor, and even within this house - …” (Bronte

    Read More

  • Theme Of Sickness And Death In Wuthering Heights

    1507 Words  | 7 Pages

    The interesting thing about the novel is that the characters that die usually do so after living relatively short lives. In his article, “Sickness and Health in Wuthering Heights,” Charles Lemon states, “When I last re-read Wuthering Heights, I was struck afresh by the brevity of the lives of most of the characters and by the poor health which they had to endure.” This statement supports the idea that the characters do not live long, healthy lives, but rather brief and sickly ones. The sickness and death starts at the beginning of the novel, and just continues from there. First, we have the illness and death of Mr. Earnshaw, father of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw, and adopted father of orphaned protagonist Heathcliff.

    Read More

More about Wuthering Heights By Nelly Dean Sparknotes

Open Document