Frame Story

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights: Frame Story 1 key example

Frame Story
Explanation and Analysis—Nelly Dean's Story:

Wuthering Heights utilizes a somewhat complicated frame story. It revolves around Lockwood, the new tenant at Thrushcross Grange, gradually learning the history of his landlord Heathcliff at neighboring Wuthering Heights and Heathcliff's connection with the Lintons of the Grange. Lockwood learns this story from former Wuthering Heights servant Nelly Dean, who now works at the Grange and keeps Lockwood company while he's sick. In effect, then, Nelly narrates most of the story.