Lockwood explains that “Wuthering” names “the atmospheric tumult” and notes trees bent by the north wind. What is the setting doing here?

Catherine dreams the angels “flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.” What does the moor become?

“On that bleak hill-top the earth was hard with a black frost.” What effect does this early description create?

Lockwood praises Thrushcross Grange as “so completely removed from the stir of society.” What does that remoteness help the novel do?

At the end, Lockwood watches “moths fluttering among the heath and harebells.” What is the final landscape doing?

During Catherine’s crisis, “a violent wind” and thunder split a tree by the house. What does the storm mainly accomplish?

Lockwood tells Nelly she has “no marks of the manners” he expects in her class. What does his remark establish?

Mr. Earnshaw brings home “a dirty, ragged, black-haired child.” What does that description establish about Heathcliff’s entrance?

After Mr. Earnshaw dies, Hindley “drove him from their company to the servants” and made him labor outdoors. What does Hindley’s action do?

Catherine says, “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now.” What does the word “degrade” reveal?

After the Grange changes her manners, Catherine tells Heathcliff, “Why, how very black and cross you look!” What does this moment mark?

Heathcliff wants his child “hiring their children to till their fathers’ lands for wages.” What kind of revenge does this imagine?

Heathcliff sees the Lintons’ room as “a splendid place carpeted with crimson” while he and Catherine watch from outside. What contrast is set up?

After Skulker bites Catherine, the Grange keeps her and sends Heathcliff away. What does that separation show?

Catherine returns from the Grange dressed like a young lady, and Heathcliff is shamed by the comparison. What has the house contrast taught her?

From the Heights, Isabella asks, “Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?” How does the house contrast work here?

Young Cathy has Grange education; Hareton has Earnshaw blood but is kept ignorant at the Heights. What does their contrast clarify?

By the last chapters, Heathcliff holds Wuthering Heights. By what means does the Heights come to him?

How does Heathcliff gain control of Thrushcross Grange?

When Edgar tries to alter his will after Cathy’s forced marriage, the lawyer Mr. Green delays and then serves Heathcliff. What does this plot turn emphasize?

Hareton is Hindley’s son, yet Heathcliff keeps him laboring at the Heights. Which property fact makes that possible?

Catherine says her love for Linton is “like the foliage in the woods,” but her love for Heathcliff “resembles the eternal rocks beneath.” What does the pairing claim?

Catherine says that if Heathcliff were annihilated, “the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” What does the cosmic diction claim?

Heathcliff says Catherine appears “in every cloud, in every tree...in every object by day.” What does the natural imagery do?

Catherine says, “I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world...but really with it, and in it.” How is desire figured here?