Summary of Wuthering Heights chapters 1 – 4.

Summary of Wuthering Heights chapters 1 – 4.

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In 1801, Mr. Lockwood writes in his diary as a tenant at Thrushcross Grange landlord, which Mr. Heathcliff is the owner and who has terrible characteristic lives in the Wuthering Heights. ‘Wuthering’ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. While entering Wuthering Heights, Lockwood notices but does not comment upon the date “1500” and the name “Hareton Earnshaw” above the principal door. They enter the house and Lockwood realizes that there is only one servant, Joseph, which may explain why the house is in such disrepair, and there are also several dogs. A short while after, Heathcliff and Joseph go down the cellar, leaving Lockwood alone with the dogs. Fortunately, a female servant comes from the kitchen with a pan and shoos the dogs away, and when Heathcliff back Lockwood finds him compelling and uninvited announces that he will return tomorrow.

Lockwood came back to Wuthering Heights, and as he arrives, snow begins to fall but he does not meet Heathcliff because he is on the way home. Lockwood finally gets the attention of a young man who let him into the kitchen and also he finds a woman he addresses as ‘Mrs. Heathcliff’ there, but she only speaks to tell him he should not have left the house and that pack of dogs do not belong to her. When Mr. Heathcliff arrives, he corrects Lockwood if the young woman is not his wife, but his daughter-in-law and Lockwood assumes that the young man who let him must be his son, but Heathcliff corrects it again if the young man, Hareton Eranshaw, is not his son. The snow develops into a snowstorm, and Lockwood stars to imply that getting home is impossible, and he will need to stay at Wuthering Heights, but all of family unhappy getting Lockwood stays at their home.

Lockwood who does not allowed to stay there is shown to a chamber in which Heathcliff allows no one to stay by Zillah, a cooky, and  sees a few mildewed books piled up in one corner, and it is covered with writing scratched on the paint. That writing, however, is nothing but a name repeated in all kinds of characters, large and small- Catherine Eranshaw, Catherine Heathcliff, and Catherine. Lockwood reads one of the books that belonging to Catherine Earnshaw which describe about her brother, Hindley, treats Heathcliff poorly, because Catherine and Heathcliff close each other. After reading several entries of Catherine’s diary,  Lockwood falls asleep and has two nightmare based on what he reads in Catherine’s diary. He wakes up screaming, and Heathcliff comes in, and he unaware because Lockwood be in a special chamber. Lockwood tells Heathcliff what happened, mentioning the dream and Catherine Linton’s name, which distresses and angers Heathcliff. Lockwood finishes the night in the kitchen, as soon as it is dawn, he return to the Thrushcross Grange, and Heathcliff shows him the way home, and Lockwood arrives chilled.

Lockwood ask his housekeeper, Nelly Dean to tell him about Heathcliff and his daughter-in-law. Nelly inform him that the widow’s maiden name is Catherine Linton, the daughter of Nelly’s late master, and that Hareton Earnshaw is the nephew of her late master’s wife. That bit of information piques lockwood’s curiously, so he encourages Nelly to tell him the history of the people and places he has encountered.