name repeated in all kinds of characters, large and small-Catherine Earnshaw, here and there .
varied to Catherine Heathcliff, and then again to Catherine Linton." (Pg 24) This quote gives us .
a glimpse as to what may have happened between Catherine and other characters, since the last .
part of each name changes implying her interest in each of them. The entire story consists of .
the contents of Lockwood's diary which he had compiled from various places, including diary .
entries, the back of books, stories that Nelly Dean tells him and his own experiences. Although .
this, Lockwood could be viewed as a biased narrator. When Lockwood comes to the Heights he .
is an outside, looking in. He is judging what he sees and hears by his own standards. .
Lockwood is a higher class then the people at the Heights and Grange, and when judging them, .
he judges them as if he was in a normal world. Due to his lack of judgement, he completely .
misreads the situation of the people.
The second narrator introduced is Nelly Dean, who tells the most of the story. Although .
placed between both household, and better educated then most servants, and is thought to be .
reliable. Nelly had lived on the moors almost all of her life with the people whose her story .
depicts. Although uneducated, she is thought to be one of the more intelligent minds on the .
moors. "Excepting a few provincialisms of slight consequence, you have no marks of the .
manners which I am habituated to consider as peculiar to your class. I am sure that you have .
thought a good deal more than the generality of servants think. You have been compelled to .
cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasion for frittering your life away in silly .
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trifles."(Pg 65) This quote is an example of Lockwood's view towards Nelly's intelligence. He .