Fiction Review: Wuthering Heights
It is the year 1801, and Mr. Lockwood decides to rent a remote estate on the Yorkshire moors known as Thrushcross Grange. Being a gentleman, he decides to pay a visit to his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, but the reception is far from warm. Due to a violent tempest, Mr. Lockwood is forced to remain overnight at Wuthering Heights. There, he meets a young, charming woman with a heart of ice. As evening approaches, Mr. Lockwood is hosted in a room full of cobwebs. He notices several intimate diaries belonging to Catherine Earnshaw and begins reading them. What he reads about Catherine's childhood is deeply disturbing. A sudden gust of wind interrupts Mr. Lockwood's reading, and he hears a voice outside the window—the lament of a woman begging to return home. Shaken and feverish, Mr. Lockwood is tended to by the housekeeper, Nelly Dean, who brings him a hot drink and begins telling him the long story of the family she has served for so many years. Years earlier, the elderly Mr. Earnshaw...
