Lockwood records Nelly saying Zillah told her, "The first thing Mrs. Linton did..." How many tellers stand between reader and event?

Isabella's letter to Nelly is copied inside Lockwood's diary. When Isabella asks, "Is Mr. Heathcliff a man?" whose voice is deepest inside the frame?

When Lockwood reads Catherine's childhood writing in the old books before Nelly begins, which layer briefly enters his diary?

A passage begins, "I had a long talk with Zillah... and this is what she told me." Who is speaking directly to Lockwood at that outer spoken layer?

When Nelly recounts an episode by saying Heathcliff later told her about it, the event reaches the reader through which chain?

In the opening chapters, visits to Wuthering Heights are narrated before Nelly's history begins. Which teller controls this first frame?

The novel opens, "I have just returned from a visit to my landlord." What does beginning with Lockwood chiefly do?

Lockwood mistakes Cathy for Heathcliff's wife and Hareton for a servant. What does that prepare the reader for?

Why present Nelly's tale as something Lockwood hears while ill at Thrushcross Grange?

Lockwood's diary dates the outer action after most central events have occurred. What structural effect follows?

The outer frame returns when Lockwood later revisits the area. What does that return chiefly test?

Nelly says she "got used to playing with the children" and "ran errands too." What does that positioning make her?

Nelly admits of Heathcliff, "Hindley hated him: and to say the truth I did the same." How should this shape a reader's response?

Nelly says of Catherine, "I own I did not like her, after infancy was past." What does the confession signal?

Nelly calls Zillah "a narrow-minded, selfish woman" while using her as "my informant." What does the pairing show?

Nelly says she knows Heathcliff's story except "where he was born, and who were his parents." What limit does she acknowledge?

Nelly first recalls Heathcliff as "a dirty, ragged, black-haired child." What does that diction do?

When Nelly specifies, "about six weeks ago" and "this is what she told me," what does she make visible?

Isabella's copied letter asks, "Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad?" What does letting her ask this in her own hand accomplish?

Zillah's report begins inside Nelly's account: "The first thing Mrs. Linton did..." What narrative work does this deeper nesting do?

Catherine's childhood writing in the old books appears before Nelly's history. What is the effect of that embedded text?

Heathcliff's account of opening Catherine's grave is reported by Nelly to Lockwood. What does this nesting preserve?

Nelly reports Heathcliff's last night through details such as untouched food, the open lattice and the rain. What can the reader not determine?

Because Catherine's crucial choices reach us through Nelly's memory of conversations, what remains unavailable?

Lockwood's nightmare after reading Catherine's writing is framed by his diary and his feverish state. What does the narration leave unsettled?