Wuthering Heights: Chapter 4
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Chapter questions
- Question 1 · Recall
How long has Nelly Dean lived at Thrushcross Grange?
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Eighteen years. She came when the mistress married, and Lockwood had thought sixteen.Reference: Chapter 4, Lockwood's first questions
- Question 2 · Recall
What does Mr. Earnshaw bring home from Liverpool?
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A dirty, ragged, black-haired child who speaks only gibberish. The family later names him Heathcliff.Reference: Chapter 4, Mr. Earnshaw's return
- Question 3 · Recall
What happens to the presents Hindley and Cathy asked for?
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Hindley's fiddle is crushed in Mr. Earnshaw's pocket, and Cathy's whip is lost.Reference: Chapter 4, the children's gifts
- Question 4 · Why
Why is Nelly sent from the house?
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She lays the child on the staircase landing, hoping he will be gone by morning. He creeps to Mr. Earnshaw's door, and when the truth comes out she is sent out as punishment.Reference: Chapter 4, the first night
- Question 5 · Why
Why does Mr. Earnshaw's treatment of Heathcliff cause trouble in the family?
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He is angry when Hindley picks on the boy and favors Heathcliff above his own children. Hindley comes to see his father as an oppressor and Heathcliff as a usurper.Reference: Chapter 4, the effect on Hindley
Chapter summary
Lockwood, low in spirits at the Grange, asks his housekeeper Nelly Dean to keep him company. He questions her about Heathcliff, Mrs. Heathcliff and Hareton, and she says that she knows his whole history except where he came from. Lockwood asks her to stay and tell the story, and from here Nelly narrates.
She says she grew up at Wuthering Heights with the Earnshaw children, Hindley and Cathy. One summer, old Mr. Earnshaw set out on foot for Liverpool and promised each child a present. He returned three days later carrying a starving, dark child he had found in the street. Mrs. Earnshaw was furious. The children were disappointed about their presents. Heathcliff, as the boy was called, became close to Cathy, while Hindley hated him. Mr. Earnshaw favored him. When the horses were given out, Heathcliff forced Hindley to swap, and he said so little about the blows he took that Nelly thought he held no grudge. She says she was wrong.
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