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=CHAPTER _: Mansion of Misfits=

__EVENTS or DEVELOPMENTS IN THIS CHAPTER:__

Mr. Lockwood visits Heathcliff during a terrible snow storm. Stuck there for the night, Mr. Lockwood becomes aquainted with the odd and extreme personalities of Wuthering Heights' inhabitants. Secluded from society and its restrictions, the characters' behaviors and actions are extreme and based more on primative survival than courtesy. In this chapter, Mr. Lockwood wrongly assumes the relations between the characters proving himself to be an unreliable source of facts (but excellent at opinion). We find that Heathcliff had a son who passed away and left Heathcliff to look after his wife. The young man is therefore not his son but rather Hareton Earnshaw. This chapter leaves us reeling in unsolved mysteries. How have these characters come together and why do they behave the way they do? __2 IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS FROM THIS CHAPTER (and why):__

'Well, Mr. Earnshaw,' she cried, 'I wonder what you'll have agait next! Are we going to murder folk on our very door stones? I see this house will never do for me- look at t' poor lad, he's fair choking! Wisht, wisht! you mun'n't go on so.' - Zillah (page 15) This quote emphasizes how their cruelities towards others and each other are common. A situation like this would not occur in normal society, but in seclusion, this strange world is created and odd happenings occur here. '...a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.' - Mr. Lockwood (page 11) This quote helps us see how different Heathcliff is from other people. Mr. Lockwood observes that his face will not interpret the language of his soul (smiling, laughing, etc.). Heathcliff is the most extreme of all of Wuthering Heights' outcasts. __THEMATIC CONNECTIONS and MOTIFS:__