They were in no particular order, only scribbled around the windowsill. Even in Lockwood's dream, the names are in no particular order. They just swarmed about in front of his eyes. However, when Lockwood awoke, he narrated them in the order "Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff, Catherine Linton." Read forward, they tell the order of Catherine I's loyalties, and read backward, they tell the order of Catherine II's loyalties (Jacobs 356). This is a kind of predictor of what Lockwood is to learn and experience while living at Thrushcross Grange. In Lockwood's second dream, he and Joseph are traveling together across the moors. Lockwood learns that he would need a pilgrim's staff to be able to enter his home. He turns to Joseph and sees that Joseph has a staff. This could symbolize that Lockwood feels he is inferior to Joseph or the other inhabitants of Wuthering Heights. He feels that they have something that Lockwood does not: perhaps knowledge of the events that have gone on in Wuthering Heights. The staff could be a representation of the knowledge or experience of the history of the mysterious house that he has entered. Lockwood may feel that, figuratively, he can never enter into the center of Wuthering Heights without this knowledge. In the dream, Lockwood and Joseph are later forced to listen to a sermon, and one of them is to be excommunicated, although Lockwood is not sure whether the guilty one is he or Joseph. This relates to Lockwood's experience at Wuthering Heights in multiple ways. For one, Lockwood is not really a part of the lives of those who live at the Heights. Even when he is there and interacting with Heathcliff, Catherine II, Hareton, and Joseph, he does not belong there. He does become a part of the plot of the story but is always an outsider at Wuthering Heights. After his night at the Heights, Lockwood gets sick and is stuck at Thrushcross Grange. He is not able to return to the Heights until he is better, ...
