Wuthering Heights key events

Heathcliff introduced

Chapter 4

Lockwood saws the ghost of Catherine’s hand on the window’s broken glass

ch3

Catherine wishes she was a girl again, ‘half savage and hardy, and free!’

ch12

Heathcliff ‘And we’ll see if one tree won’t grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!’

ch17

Linton vs younger Catherine’s ideal days

ch24

‘I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men and women - my own features - mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!’

ch33

Edgar vs Heathcliff’s graves

ch34

Catherine returns from TCG to WH

Chapter 7

HC overhears Catherine and Nelly, runs away

Chapter 9

HC returns to Catherine after 2 years

Chapter 10

Catherine locks herself away and starves

Chapter 11

Nelly convinced Catherine is faking her illness

Ch12

Catherine and Heathcliff final conversation

Ch 15

Heathcliff reacts to Catherine's death

Ch16

Nelly entwines both Edgar and Heathcliff’s hair into Cathy’s locket

Ch16

Heathcliff describing that he understands Hareton’s misery, and how he is punishing him

Ch21

Heathcliff comparing Hareton to Linton

Ch21

Heathcliff traps Nelly and Cathy at the Heights until Cathy agrees to marry Linton

Ch27

Cathy mocks Hareton's illiteracy

Ch31

Heathcliff nearly strikes Cathy, gives up on revenge

Ch33

Heathcliff is found dead

Ch 34

Cathy and Hareton are set to marry

Ch 34

Catherine slaps Nelly, shocking Edgar

Ch 9

Heathcliff's cruelty to Isabella

Ch13 + 14, 17 he flings the knife at her

Nelly burns Catherine and Linton’s letters

ch21

Linton whining, young Cathy fawning

Ch 23

Linton and Cathy marry, for which Linton gloats

Ch 28

Heathcliff tells Nelly he removed one side of Catherine's coffin

Ch 29

'I struck one side of the coffin loose, and covered it up'

Younger Cathy tells Heathcliff that no matter what he does to her and Linton, he'll still be unloved and miserable compared to them

Ch 29

Linton dies

Ch 30

Catherine teaching Hareton how to read

Ch32

'we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!'

Ch17, Heathcliff when he learns he will be raising Hareton