Chapters 1–4: Lockwood visits Wuthering Heights, meets Heathcliff’s strange household, has a disturbing dream or ghostly encounter, and begins to hear the family history from Nelly Dean.

In Chapters 1–4 of Wuthering Heights, Mr. Lockwood arrives in the isolated Yorkshire countryside as Heathcliff’s tenant at Thrushcross Grange. Curious about his landlord, he visits Wuthering Heights and immediately notices the rough weather, harsh setting, and tense household. Heathcliff is cold and suspicious, the people around him seem hostile and unhappy, and Lockwood cannot easily understand how they are all connected.

After a second visit traps him overnight in a snowstorm, Lockwood sleeps in an old room connected to Catherine Earnshaw and experiences one of the novel’s most famous Gothic moments: a nightmare or  ...