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Question: Please Help Me - Wuthering Heights!?
I am currently reading the book, but can somebody explain to me chapter 3 in a more simple form!? Thanks!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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The other answer has given you a great explanation, so I have nothing to do from that side!.

The only thing that I wanted to add is that did you know that Wuthering Heights and all other books by the Bronte sisters (and many other famous classic authors) are freely available in the Internet!? Just wanted to give you a heads-up! They are available here:
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Zillah leads Lockwood to an out-of-the-way room from which Heathcliff has forbidden all visitors!. He notices that someone has scratched words into the paint on the ledge by the bed!. Three names are inscribed there repeatedly: Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Linton, and Catherine Heathcliff!. He also finds a diary written approximately twenty-five years earlier!. Apparently the diary belonged to Catherine Earnshaw, and Lockwood reads an entry that describes a day at Wuthering Heights shortly after her father died, during which her cruel older brother Hindley forces her and Heathcliff to endure Joseph's tedious sermons!. Catherine and Heathcliff seem to have been very close, and Hindley seems to have hated Heathcliff!. The diary even describes Hindley telling his wife, Frances, to pull the boy's hair!.

Lockwood falls asleep and enters into a pair of nightmares!. He awakes from the second when the cone from a fir branch begins tapping on his window!. Still half asleep, he attempts to break off the branch by forcing his hand through the window glass!. But instead of a branch, he finds a ghostly hand, which seizes his own, and a voice, sobbing the name Catherine Linton, demands to be let in!. To free himself, Lockwood rubs the ghost's wrist on the broken glass until blood covers the bed sheets!. The ghost releases him, and Lockwood tries to cover the hole in the window with a pile of books!. But the books begin to fall, and he cries out in terror!. Heathcliff rushes into the room, and Lockwood cries out that the room is haunted!. Heathcliff curses him, but, as Lockwood flees from the room, Heathcliff cries out to Catherine, begging her to return!. There are no signs that the ghost was ever at the window!. In the morning, Heathcliff treats his daughter-in-law cruelly!. He later escorts Lockwood home, where the servants, who believed their master dead in the storm, receive him with joy!. Lockwood, however, retreats into his study to escape human company!.Www@QuestionHome@Com