Wuthering Heights Lockwood Quotes

Lockwood

Quote 1

[Lockwood:] I began to feel unmistakably out of place in that pleasant family circle. (2.63)

No matter how insightful he believes he is, Lockwood ultimately remains an outsider to the scene he describes. Nonetheless, he believes he has a chance with the young Catherine. The question is: knowing what he knows, why would be want to marry into this family? What does that tell us about him as a narrator?

Lockwood

Quote 2

[. . .] knocking my knuckles through the glass, and stretching an arm out to seize the importunate branch: instead of which, my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand. The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, "Let me in—let me in!" (3.45)

Lockwood discovers his first night at Wuthering Heights that all is not normal there. But one central question is, is the ghost real or a figment of Lockwood's imagination?