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Heathcliff is brought to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw
While on a trip, Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw come across a boy. He is a gypsy abandoned by his parents discovered on the streets of Liverpool and raised by the Earnshaw family of Wuthering Heights in Yorkshire. at first, both Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw don't care for him. However, Catherine later befriends him and loves him. -
Hindley goes off to college
Hindley and Heathcliff never got along. It began to get pretty bad and Hindley thought his parents cared for Heathcliff more than they did for him. They decide to send him away to college. While away, Hindley marries a woman named Frances. -
Hindley returns
Mr. Earnshaw dies, and Hindley has to come back to Wuthering Heights because now both of his parents have passed. He brings along his wife Frances. When Hindley comes back, he tells Heathcliff that he can stay at the house, if he becomes a servant there. Heathcliff agrees. -
Catherine Returns
Heathcliff and Catherine are very much in love and the go off to visit Thrushcross Grange. Catherine gets bit by a dog there and the residents there, the Lintons, nurse her back to health. Catherine returns when she is better and has become much classier than before and looks down at Heathcliff. At Thrushcross Grange Catherine and the Linton's son, Edgar, become close. They are all invited to dinner at Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff tries to impress Catherine but ends up embarrassing himself. -
Heathcliff leaves
One night, Edgar and Catherine confess that they love each other. After this, Catherine is talking to Nelly, a house servant, and tells her that Edgar and her plan to get married, but she is still in love with Heathcliff. She tells her that she cannot be with him though beause he is in a lower social class than her. Heathcliff over hears that and he decides to run away. -
Heathcliff returns
A few months after Catherine and Edgar are married, Heathcliff returns to Wuthering Heights. He returns very wealthy. Isabella Linton, Edgar's sister, soon falls in love with Heathcliff, and out of spite, Heathcliff marries her. -
Catherine dies
Heathcliff takes up residence at Wuthering Heights, and spends his time gambling with Hindley, Hindley shares his wealth and mortgages the farmhouse to Heathcliff to pay his debts. Heathcliff elopes with Isabella; two months later the couple returns to Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff hears that Catherine is ill and, with Nelly's help, visits her secretly. Catherine was not only ill, but pregnant too, and the following day gives birth to a daughter, Cathy, shortly before she passes. -
Isabella and Heathcliff
Heathcliff was not a good husband to Isabella. Heathcliff was abusive and cruel to Isabella. He never truely loved her. Pregnant, she finds the strength to escape to London. There, she gives birth to a son, Linton. Back home, Hindley dies six months after Catherine, and Heathcliff finds himself master of Wuthering Heights. -
Isabella dies
While Cathy's father Edgar is away retrieving his sister's son, Linton, Cathy takes advantage of her father's absence to venture farther afield. She walks to the moors where she meets Hareton, and from him learns of Wuthering Heights and discovers she has not one, but two cousins: Hareton in addition to Linton.When Edgar returns with Linton, a weak and sickly boy, Cathy wants him to stay but Heathcliff insists that he live at Wuthering Heights instead. -
Linton and Cathy
Walking on the moors, Nelly and Cathy encounter Heathcliff, who takes them to Wuthering Heights to meet Linton and Hareton. He hopes Linton and Cathy will marry so Linton, would become the heir to Thrushcross Grange. Linton and Cathy begin a secret friendship, like their parents. -
Linton dies
As master of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, Heathcliff forces Cathy to leave Nelly and live with him and Hareton. Soon after she arrives, Linton dies. Hareton tries to be kind to Cathy, but she retreats withdraws from the world.
At this point, Lockwood arrives and Nelly's tale catches up to the present day. Some time passes, and after being ill for an extended period, Lockwood grows bored with the moors and informs Heathcliff that he will be departing from Wuthering Heights. -
Edgar is ill
Cathy and Linton are married. Edgar takes a turn for the worse when Nelly and Cathy are visiting Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff prevents them from leaving and keeps them captive to encourage Cathy and Linton's courtship and to deny Edgar the chance to see his daughter before he dies. After five days Nelly is released, and with Linton's help, Cathy escapes. She returns to the Grange to see her father shortly before he dies. -
Lockwood returns
Lockwood returns eight months later. He finds Nelly at Wuthering Heights. She explains that Hareton had an accident and was confined to the farmhouse. During his recovery, he and Cathy became close. While their friendship developed, Heathcliff began to act strangely and had visions of Catherine. He stopped eating and after four days was found dead in Catherine's old room. He was buried next to her. Lockwood learns that Hareton and Cathy plan to marry. As he leaves, Lockwood visits their graves.
