Shut in the panelled bed, Lockwood hears a voice sob, "Let me in--let me in!" What name does the voice give?

Lockwood finds Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff, and Catherine Linton scratched into the ledge. What does this detail do before Nelly's tale begins?

Lockwood's dreams move from a violent sermon to the hand at the window. What does that sequence accomplish?

When Heathcliff hears Lockwood's cry, he opens the window and calls, "Come in! come in!" What does this reaction reveal?

The opening describes "Wuthering" as linked to "atmospheric tumult" and shows trees bent by wind. How does the setting function?

Back at the Grange after his visits to the Heights, Lockwood asks Nelly Dean to sit with him, and she begins the long story. What is the effect of this narrative shift?

Mr. Earnshaw asks the children what he should bring from Liverpool: Hindley wants a fiddle, while Catherine wants a whip. What does Catherine's request suggest?

Mr. Earnshaw brings home from Liverpool "a dirty, ragged, black-haired child." How is the child first received at the Heights?

The foundling is named Heathcliff, after a son who died in childhood. What does that naming immediately blur?

After Mr. Earnshaw dies, Hindley returns and degrades Heathcliff. What change under pressure does the novel show?

Catherine is kept for five weeks at Thrushcross Grange after Skulker bites her. What contrast does her return make visible?

For Catherine and Heathcliff as children, what do the moors most clearly represent?

Edgar sees Catherine strike Nelly and shake Hareton, yet the courtship continues. What does this sequence expose?

Catherine tells Nelly, "It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now," then says, "Nelly, I am Heathcliff!" What conflict inside Catherine does this contradiction expose?

Catherine dreams she is unhappy in heaven and is flung back onto Wuthering Heights. What does the dream reveal?

Catherine says her love for Edgar is like "foliage in the woods," while her love for Heathcliff resembles "eternal rocks beneath." What does the figurative contrast do?

Heathcliff leaves after hearing Catherine say marriage to him would degrade her, but before "I am Heathcliff." What structural effect follows?

Catherine marries Edgar, and Nelly moves with her to Thrushcross Grange. What is the significance of this move?

When Heathcliff returns after years away, he is altered in dress, bearing, and speech. What does this change allow him to do?

After returning, what does Heathcliff set about doing at Wuthering Heights?

Catherine warns Isabella that Heathcliff is "a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man." What does this speech try to do?

Heathcliff's pursuit of Isabella is presented as what kind of action?

During the conflict among Edgar, Heathcliff, and Catherine, Catherine locks herself away and refuses food. What change does this pressure reveal?

Isabella's letter from Wuthering Heights asks, "Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?" What does the letter reveal?

In her illness, Catherine longs for the window open, the heather, and the old house. How does setting work here?

At their last meeting, Heathcliff says, "You have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." What does the line emphasize?

What does Heathcliff pray after Catherine dies?

Where is Catherine buried after her death?

Soon after Catherine's death, what does Isabella do?

After Hindley dies, Heathcliff becomes master of Wuthering Heights. How does he treat Hindley's son, Hareton?