The Bronte Sisters by Catherine Reef

Author:Catherine Reef
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Catherine calls into a storm for Heathcliff in this early illustration.

So much has happened, but Emily Brontë has told only half her story. In the second part of her novel, it will be the task of another generation to restore joy and hope to Wuthering Heights.

Emily Brontë devised a complex structure for Wuthering Heights. She told her tale through the diary of a character named Lockwood, who some years later is a new tenant at Thrushcross Grange. When he rides up to Wuthering Heights on a winter day to call on his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, a snowstorm forces him to spend the night. A servant shows him to a chamber that was never used, explaining that the master rarely allowed it to be entered. As Lockwood drifts into sleep, half dreaming, he hears a tree blowing against the window beside his bed. The window refuses to open, so he breaks a pane of glass and reaches out to snap off the bothersome branch. To his surprise, he grasps not twigs, but tiny, cold fingers. His cries bring Heathcliff into the room. By this time the spirit has gone, but what Lockwood sees next is equally shocking. His landlord throws open the window and in anguish begs his beloved Cathy to enter.

Lockwood goes home to Thrushcross Grange, and as often happens to people in nineteenth-century novels, exposure to wintry air gives him a bad cold. While he rests in bed, his housekeeper tells him the saga of Wuthering Heights. In this way, Emily Brontë’s novel becomes a tale within a tale, as Lockwood records in his diary the housekeeper’s story.

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