Lockwood

Lockwood

is the narrator of the novel. He is a gentleman from London, in distinct contrast to the other rural characters. He is not particularly sympathetic and tends to patronize his subjects.Mr. Lockwood holds a certain amount of pretentiousness, his views on Catherine Heathcliff, for example. Lockwood is clear in his belief that her life would be much better with him, while obviously her life at that time couldn't get much worse the emphasis on himself makes him seem like a very chauvinist character. Also, his attachment to Nelly Dean is based on what information he can drag out of her, he views her as nothing more than a gossip whom he can use to his own advantage and cares nothing for the sorrow she endured with the loss of so many people. Lockwood’s narration forms a frame around Nelly’s; he serves as an intermediary between Nelly and the reader. A somewhat vain and presumptuous gentleman, he deals very clumsily with the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights. Lockwood comes from a more domesticated region of England, and he finds himself at a loss when he witnesses the strange household’s disregard for the social conventions that have always structured his world. As a narrator, his vanity and unfamiliarity with the story occasionally lead him to misunderstand events.