CHAPTER 32

- About a year later Lockwood passes through Yorkshire and
decides to stop at Thrushcross Grange. He is told that Ellen
has gone to Wuthering Heights, so he heads over there. The
change in Wuthering Heights is astonishing. The gate is
unlocked, the fragrance of flowers permeates the air, and a
scene of young love is played out at an open window. A
sweet-voiced girl is teaching a handsome, respectably
dressed lad how to read. She kisses him, and slaps him
playfully. The two, of course, are Cathy and Hareton.
Emily Bronte withholds their identities at first to emphasize
their complete transformation. The scene is a union of the
best of both houses. Books once belonged only at
Thrushcross Grange. For the older Cathy and Heathcliff
they were objects of repression; as children, they threw
religious books into the fire in an act of rebellion. For
Edgar reading was a way to escape from problems; he shut
himself up with his books when Cathy fell into a fit.

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