wn. While Lockwood thought he would be able to find his way home based on rocks sticking up along the path, he finds the hills to be one billowy, white ocean; the swells and falls...blotted out from the chart which my yesterdays walk left pictured in my mind (72-3). The long, winding path nearest to Wuthering Heights is much harder to travel than the one that leads to Thrushcross Grange, and it is easy to get lost. The first path resembles Heathcliffs own path to the wild and contemptuous man he has become. If Wuthering Heights is hopelessness and desolation, Thrushcross Grange is peace and salvation. Heathcliff leaves Lockwood at this point, telling his tenant that he will be able to make it the rest of the way on his own. Heathcliff lives at Wuthering Heights because a desolate place is where he belongs, and his not walking the rest of the way to Thrushcross Grange is symbolic of his not being able, or even wanting, to travel toward happiness. Any happiness he had ended when Catherine died. One big turning point marked by stormy weather in the book is the day Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights for the first time. After hearing Catherine say that she could never marry him, Heathcliffs heart is broken and he creeps out of the house. When Catherine realizes his absence, she gets extremely agitated, pacing from the gate to the door of the house and wondering where he could be. The weather in this scene is very ominous. It was a very dark evening for summer: the clouds appeared inclined to thunder, Nelly tells Lockwood (124). Not much later, a horrible storm begins. There was a violent wind, Nelly says, and either one or the other split a tree off at the corner of the building...but the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed, excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched (125). Although it is the middle of summer, one of the times a storm like this one is unlikely occur, Heathcliffs disappeara...
