Perhaps the first thing to strike the reader is the strength, clarity and forthright manner of Emily Bronte's narrative method. The description of Lockwood and Heathcliff is lucid and deft, the writer establishing their personalities with a scrap of dialogue and imaginative detail. These narrative elements suggesting strangeness, conflict, the use of physical and social power, are both explicit and implicit. They are explicit in Heathcliff's suspicion of strangers, in Joseph's sour aloofness, in the aggressive guard-dogs. They are implicit in the nature of Wuthering Heights itself - its brutally exposed site, its sombre atmosphere suggesting even at this early stage in the story the possibility of dreadful happenings The symbolism of the house reflects and reinforces the violent attitudes of the creatures it harbours.

Lockwood narrates the first section of the novel and the reader's first impression of him is a suspicious one. His language is so very formal and verbose, 'I do myself the honour of calling as soon as

Clearly, then, Wuthering Heights is a house which conflicts greatly with Lockwood's personality. The surroundings are wild and have freedom whereas Lockwood is civilised and very much bound to the society he has grown up in. This adds to the tension created when Lockwood enters the premises because he is obviously not welcome, and stands out as a conflicting entity within the building. It is ironic, then, that he has come to Wuthering Heights as a refuge from his unfortunate, disastrous romantic encounter with a 'goddess' while at the seacoast.

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'He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdrawn so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution...'

This is a biblical reference to the Gabardine swine,

The dogs at the house do not take kindly to Lockwood either. Even when he tries showing affection they are hostile, 'My caress provoked a long, guttural gnarl.' Also, Heathcliff is compared with animals for the first time, 'You'd better let the dog alone,' growled Mr. Heathcliff, in unison,' this reference perhaps reflecting Heathcliff's animal like nature even at this early stage. When the dogs attack Lockwood he accuses them of being possessed,

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