RainyDay Relationships Use of Weather in Wuthering...

RainyDay Relationships Use of Weather in Wuthering Heights In Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, numerous references are made to different conditions of weather. Even the title of the novel suggests the storminess present in nearly the entire book. The often-changing weather serves to signify the characters’ personalities, as well as the changes that they go through during the course of their lives. In fact, the first incidence of a reference being made to the weather occurs with a thought of Mr. Lockwood. â€Å"Wuthering being a significant provincial adjective,† he says, â€Å"descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather† (46). Because Wuthering Heights has been built on the moors, wind†¦show more content†¦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, Heathcliff’s 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. â€Å"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. â€Å"There was a violent wind,† Nelly says, â€Å"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