Refer to chapter one of Wuthering Heights and comment on how Bronte introduces her reader to the novel.
             · Setting and atmosphere created,
             · Characters and how they interact,
             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 possible...to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you...' This, from the start, then, creates a distance between the reader and Lockwood. The reader finds it hard to relate to such a formal character early on and there is instantly a barrier formed because of this. Heathcliff has a very similar reaction, 'Even the gate over which he leant manifested no sympathising movement to the words;'. There is a physical barrier here, the gate, but metaphorically there is also a barrier between Lockwood and Heathcliff although Lockwood is slow to see this, 'Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair...' and describing him as 'A capital fellow'.
             The way in ...