A Family Tree of Sorts

So I'm not sure about the others but I was quite confused at the beginning with the mention of the Catherines and all the people at Wuthering Heights who are related in many, confusing ways. When Nelly Dean, the housekeeper at Thrushcross Grange - Lockwoods's current home, spells out the family history and all the relationships between the characters, I decided I would take this chance to make a sort of family tree (the information is gathered from both from what Nelly tells Lockwood throughout the book and the diary entry that Lockwood read earlier).

Haunted Room?

The whole incident with Catherine in the window of the guest room where Lockwood passes the night is very unexpected and somewhat scary. The first couple chapters seem very realistic and normal when all of a sudden, there is an appearance of a specter. It happens like this: Lockwood is awoken by the noise a tree is making, scratching against the window of his room and so he decides to fix the problem and reaches out of the window. When he does this, a cold hand grasps his and there is a waif called Catherine who is sobbing for him to let her in. This occurrence is rather unnerving and I would have passed it for one of the nightmares Lockwood had that night had it not been for the fact that Heathcliff continued to ask the specter to return, as if she has made appearances before.  SPOOKY! 

What Wuthering Heights Looks Like

I think it’s interesting to see the great lengths to which Emily Bronte goes to describe Wuthering Heights, the manor where Heathcliff lives. It is already evident from the first three pages of the book that Bronte is obsessed with providing minute details of everything and anything. If there is a movie made about this book (it seems there is at least one) then I’m sure the set designers had no problem deciding what to put on the set and what props to have because of the precise descriptions Bronte gives us. For example, she describes the kitchen at Wuthering Heights so thoroughly that we even learn that the chairs are green and high-backed with a handful of black chairs “lurking in the shade.” The background on my laptop switches every 30 seconds and the castle below is one of the images and I think it kind of captures my first impression of what Wuthering Heights looked like (based on the description and the term “wuthering” which referred to the weather apparently) as well as the skies surrounding the home. It also reflects the attitude of Heathcliff - dark and surly.