Wuthering heights Chapter 1

Chapter 1 opens with Mr Lockwood arriving at Thrushcross Grange: the property nearest Wuthering Heights. He visits Heathcliff, his landlord, and receives a cool reception after attempting to make conversation with him. Lockwood takes a strange amiability towards Heathcliff even though he is unwelcoming, stern and silent. “’Mr Heathcliff?’ I said. A Nod was the answer”. Victorians often visited one another as a form of entertainment so it is unusual for Heathcliff to be so uninviting. Lockwood is then left alone in the room with several viscous dogs that attack him. He is ‘saved’ by the housekeeper. Eventually, Heathcliff warms to Mr Lockwood, and offers “a glass of wine?”. Even thou...