Wuthering Heights

The year in 1801. In this section all the principal characters are introduced. Mr Lockwood the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange arrives at Wuthering Height to meet his landlord Heathcliff. The next day he encounters Hareton the orphaned son of Hindley Earnshaw and Heathcliff's daughter-in-law Cathy Linton. During the night Lockwood is disturbed by the vexed ghost of Cathy's mother Catherine - the story's heroine- at the window. Lockwood's cries of terror alert Heathcliff and the section ends with a distraught Heathcliff begging his beloved Catherine to return to him.