verything, from travelers on the road to the surrounding landscape. Heathcliff is eager to join her and goes on a hunger strike. Heathcliff becomes happier the sicker and weaker he gets. He dies and his wish is granted, he is buried between Catherine and Edgar. Heathcliff's property is passed on to its rightful owner, Hareton. He and Catherine are married and live happily together until they die. Most of the story, up to Linton's death, is a narrative told by Catherine's nurse, Ellen Dean. It is told to a traveler named Mr. Lockwood. Lockwood has moved from a big city to the rural moorlands and is renting Thrushcross Grange from Heathcliff. The very beginning and end of the story are told by Lockwood. He was disappointed with the rude way he was treated by Heathcliff upon his arrival at Wuthering Heights and was tempted to leave a few days later but became ill, and was forced to stay in bed at Thrushcross Grange. He persuaded Ellen to tell him the history of his landlord and his mysterious family while he was recovering. She then tells him the story of love and hatred between the Earnshaws and Lintons. Lockwood observes firsthand everything that happens after Linton's death. A very small portion of the novel is also told by a letter from Isabella to Ellen, describing the tense relationship between Hindley and Heathcliff. Love sets the stage for conflict in the novel. Catherine's love for Edgar concerns with superficial things. It is a love for a young, handsome, wealthy personality. It is a love formed in a society "where income and status also have a place in the quality of life."2 His social and financial position make it easy for her to fall in love with him. Her love for Heathcliff was not based on material things, at the time she felt love for him he had nothing to give to her. It looks as much like hate as love. They are violent to each other. She even pulls out some of Heathcliff's hair...
