Chapter 1-5
             Writing in his diary in 1801, Lockwood describes his first days as a tenant at Thrushcross Grange, an isolated manor in the desolate English moor country. Shortly after arriving at the Grange, he has paid a visit to his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, a surly, dark man living in a manor called Wuthering Heights-- "wuthering" being a local adjective used to describe the fierce and wild winds that blow during storms on the moors. During the visit, Heathcliff seems not to trust Lockwood, and leaves him alone in a room with a group of snarling dogs; Lockwood is saved from the hounds by a ruddy-cheeked housekeeper. When Heathcliff returns, Lockwood is angry, but eventually warms toward his taciturn host, and--though he hardly seems welcome in Wuthering Heights--he volunteers to visit again soon.
             On a chilly afternoon not long after his first visit, Lockwood plans to lounge before the fire in his study; but he finds a servant kicking up dust in the room and putting out the fire, so instead he makes the four-mile walk to Wuthering Heights, and arrives just as a light snow begins to fall. He knocks, but no one appears to let him in, and Joseph, an old servant who speaks with a thick colloquial accent, calls out from the barn that Heathcliff is away. Eventually a young man appears to let him in, and Lockwood goes into a sitting room where he finds a beautiful girl sulking beside a fire--Heathcliff's wife, he assumes. When Heathcliff arrives, he corrects him; the young woman is his daughter-in- law. Lockwood then assumes that the rough-looking young man who let him in must be Heathcliff's son. Heathcliff corrects him again: the young man, Hareton Earnshaw, is not his son, and young Catherine is the widowed wife of his dead son Linton.
             The snow becomes a blizzard, and when Lockwood wishes to leave, he is forced to ask for a guide back to Thrushcross Grange. No one will help him. He takes a lantern and s...