and this is another example of his dream relating to what happens in the story. He physically is unable to return to Wuthering Heights, and so in a way, is excommunicated from the house. Lockwood's uncertainty of who is to be excommunicated in this dream could represent his uncertainty as to whether he will be exposed and banished from the Heights, or whether he will expose the history of Wuthering Heights himself. After Lockwood awakens from his second dream, he begins to doze off and hears a noise at the window. In an attempt to quiet the noise, he goes to the window. There he sees a ghost of Catherine I, who grabs his arm and begs him to let her in. It is never made clear whether Lockwood dreamt this scene or if it really happened. However, whether it was fiction or reality, Lockwood was put in the position of deciding whether or not Catherine would be allowed into Wuthering Heights. This is a big decision left to Lockwood, considering that he was not a major character in the story. Perhaps this decision was left to him because he was the main narrator of the story, and therefore he could choose, ultimately, which characters would be let into the plot. The decision could, in a way, be symbolic of the fact that Lockwood had the control of manipulating the story however he pleased. All of the dreams that Lockwood had during his night at Wuthering Heights had their base in what Lockwood had read right before going to sleep. This explains why he had the dreams, but it does not explain the knowledge that his dreams contained. For example, when Heathcliff put the names Edgar, Heathcliff, and Linton in order, he was unknowingly putting them in an order that made chronological sense to the story. However, Lockwood did not know about this order at the time, so the order was either coincidence or a prediction. In the dream that Lockwood had about being excommunicated, he was predicting the banishment that he would experience from Wuthering...
