Wuthering Heights: response #1

Wuthering Heights: Response #1
After reading to the end of Chapter 3, how would you characterize the main narrator, Lockwood? How do you think his character affects his role as narrator of the novel? What makes him qualified or unqualified to comment on the society at Wuthering Heights? Your response should be 150-200 words and should make use of evidence from the novel when possible.

The main narrator Lockwood can be characterized as presumptuous, curious, and somewhat unsuccessful. Throughout the first 3 chapter, we can see that he is bold in a sense that he is not scared to back down by different confrontations from the residents of Wuthering Heights and the dogs (“with this insult, my patience was at an end. I uttered an expression of disgust, and pushed past him into the yard,” pg.58) and we could also see that he is curious when he is wondering around the chamber he was led into sleep. The fact that Lockwood is both bold and curious qualifies him to be a good narrator, since these traits of Lockwood’s personality unravels the past and the story of the Wuthering Heights. I believe that he is unqualified to comment on the society of Wuthering Heights yet, since he lacks the knowledge of the relationships of the residents of Wuthering Heights, and also because he has lived in different society and followed different etiquette.